I guess, that would require a modification of the path selection on the > clients > side. Usually, Tor clients randomly pick relays weighted by bandwidth. > Unless > the Chinese relays would provide an enormous amount of bandwidth, they > would > barely get selected by clients which leads to a poor user experience. >
well compared to now the experience would be better, eventually the reachable Chinese relays would connect it just might take a while on first startup > > Perhaps it's better to focus on improved bridge distribution strategies > [0] and > hard-to-block transport protocols [1]. Also, that would be a universal > solution > which would also help in other countries and not a specific - and probably > hard > to maintain - Chinese-only solution. > I think the solution is not a Chinese only solution as it would work anywhere where censorship actually exists > > I guess, the firewall operators would notice that quite soon when Chinese > relays > would start popping up in the consensus or am I missing something here? > And as > soon as something is in the consensus, it's particularly easy to block. > I am not sure how it works but I have a feeling that the firewall operators have difficulties in blocking hosts inside their networks > > Aren't these 20 mbit only achievable with domestic traffic? I thought that > international traffic gets throttled a lot in China? > my experience is that I can actually get *up to* 20 mbit of international traffic, but realistically it is more like 10 mbit of reliable traffic, still ok I feel... the gfw mostly causes latency, inside gfw i can get ping times of around 4ms whereas ping through the VPN is about 250ms to the westcoast of the US.. that ping time has an effect on throughput I guess and also the bandwidth will can vary in what I guess are peak times.. Well if tor could provide a working system of bridges or whatever it would be great, but at the moment the censors are ahead.. Loz
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