points). It arrived in about 300 seconds on average, compared to 210s for a
direct download. We ran a similar test on the production Tor network,
fetching the front page of {\tt cnn.com} (55 kilobytes): while a direct
-download consistently took about 0.5s, the performance through Tor was highly
-variable. Some downloads were as fast as 0.6s, with a median at 2.7s, and
-80\% finishing within 5.7s. It seems that as the network expands, the chance
+download consistently took about 0.3s, the performance through Tor was highly
+variable. Some downloads were as fast as 0.3s, with a median at 2.6s, and
+90\% finishing within 6.0s. It seems that as the network expands, the chance
of building a slow circuit (one that includes a slow or heavily loaded node
or link) is increasing. On the other hand, as our users remain satisfied
with this increased latency, we can address our performance incrementally as we