• get https://www.torproject.org/download/
  • start it up
  • it will create a local proxy 127.0.0.1:9150
  • how to use that proxy with other programs like firefox, thunderbird or curl?
    • go into settings and configure proxy as 127.0.0.1:9150
    • should work right away 😀 (as long as tor browser is running)

in order to test bandwidth via tor script:

vim /scripts/bench_inet_bandwidth_tor.sh

#!/bin/bash
LOGFILE=bench_inet_bandwidth.log

# tidy up
rm -rf testfile

echo "=== inet benchmark (downloading 100MByte of random data) started on: $(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S') ===" >> $LOGFILE;
curl --proxy socks5h://127.0.0.1:9150 -o testfile https://dwaves.de/testfile 2>&1 | tee -a ${LOGFILE};

# output results
cat $LOGFILE;

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