%sendme} acknowledgments arrive.
To quantify these effects, we did some informal tests using a network of 4
nodes on the same machine (a heavily loaded 1GHz Athlon). We downloaded a 60
-megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 30 minutes for 54 hours (108 sample
+megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 10 minutes for 21.3 hours (128 sample
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