Jan 5, 2026

This seems to mitigate the throttling, as well as some of the connection rejection. It appears to accept on just one thread, and reducing the batch size to 1 reduces some of the connection establishment concurrency. Reducing the number of connections doesn't drop the bandwidth, but smooths out the throttling. Tor attempts to connect for 15 seconds, so I also increased those timeouts (from 5 secs) to reduce connection churn. This now cycles between 50 and 175 Mbps

[outbound]
socks = localhost:9050
connections = 50
connect_batch_size = 1

[network]
connect_timeout_seconds = 15
handshake_timeout_seconds = 15