On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:47:01AM -0700, Kris Linquist wrote: > The answer to this may be "yeah, duh.", just thought I'd ask :). I've > got a residential cable connection where I am guaranteed 22mbit down, > 5mbit up. My Tor relay BandwithRate is 1000 KB bursting up to 2000 KB. > > While Tor is running, incoming and outgoing pings to the nearest hop > goes from ~15ms to ~300+ms. This is very obvious when browsing.
1000KB is 8 megabit. 2000KB is 16 megabit. Tor counts in units of '1' rather than units of '1/8' :) Whereas your cable provider counts in units that produce large impressive-sounding numbers. See also https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#DoesBandwidthRateReallyWork --Roger