proxy - speed up?

[R.L.Reingard]

> Am 04.10.2005, 20:57 Uhr, schrieb Charles Malespin  
> <charles.malespin at gmail.com>:

>> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 20:46 +0200, R.L.Reingard wrote:
>> i do use tor and privoxy since some time.
>> its hard to see the webpages come up so slow.
>> does anyone use the same configuration and can tell me what to do to  
>> speed it a little up?
>> i just checked tor and privoxy on the same machine under windows xp and  
>> it is much faster. hm?

> I used tor and privoxy also, but found the speeds were unbearably slow
> for daily use.  I use the switchproxy extension for firefox now to just
> switch on tor when I want so that my daily work and surfing is not so
> slow.  I Think that that is the price you pay for anonymity...

good. but how does it come that under windows xp the couple tor&privoxy  
run markable faster than under ubuntu?