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@@ -1571,10 +1571,11 @@ performance. % Right now the first $500 \times 500\mbox{B}=250\mbox{KB}$
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%sendme} acknowledgments arrive.
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To quantify these effects, we did some informal tests using a network of 4
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nodes on the same machine (a heavily loaded 1GHz Athlon). We downloaded a 60
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-megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 10 minutes for 21.3 hours (128 sample
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+megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 30 minutes for 54 hours (108 sample
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points). It arrived in about 300 seconds on average, compared to 210s for a
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direct download. We ran a similar test on the production Tor network,
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-fetching the front page of {\tt cnn.com} (55 kilobytes): while a direct
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+fetching the front page of {\tt cnn.com} (55 kilobytes) every 10 minutes for
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+21.3 hours (128 sample points): while a direct
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download consistently took about 0.3s, the performance through Tor was highly
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variable. Some downloads were as fast as 0.3s, with a median at 2.6s, and
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90\% finishing within 6.0s. It seems that as the network expands, the chance
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Nick Mathewson