Silk Road forums
Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: potterine7777 on September 01, 2013, 05:55 pm
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Is the road down? Having trouble getting in...
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Its working fine for us
ACE
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I've been wondering the same thing...I keep getting page time outs and yesterday (only once) I got the SR home page but it said "The Silk Road is temporarily closed" It was odd because it didn't specify that it was "down for maintenance" and it didn't provide the link to the forums for explanation like it usually does. It didn't stay down long, but I've had trouble intermittently accessing the site and navigating from page to page. I'm good with it as long as it's not another attack...lol I just assumed it's because of all the changes and tweaking DPR is doing to the site.
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'Problem loading page'
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I havent been able to load the home page for the whole day.
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Connection timed out... :(
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It is Tor not SR. I spent 15 minutes as Tor tried to get a relay going. When it finally got one it used 5 connections from the same person! I restarted Tor and waited 15 minutes as it tried to build a relay again.
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It is Tor not SR. I spent 15 minutes as Tor tried to get a relay going. When it finally got one it used 5 connections from the same person! I restarted Tor and waited 15 minutes as it tried to build a relay again.
Thats exactly what I've been experiencing too. Seems to be like a few relays are down so we're not being routed properly.
Took me forever to get onto the forums too.
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I'm having troubles, keeps timing out waiting for the servers to respond.
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It is Tor not SR. I spent 15 minutes as Tor tried to get a relay going. When it finally got one it used 5 connections from the same person! I restarted Tor and waited 15 minutes as it tried to build a relay again.
Thats exactly what I've been experiencing too. Seems to be like a few relays are down so we're not being routed properly.
Took me forever to get onto the forums too.
forum connection is fine here just SR down, all other tor sites seem ok. withdrawal seems to be a problem again also
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yeah i have been have problems all day getting on sometimes lucky others not....SR has been giving me this type of trouble for the past few days
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Wth man... I can't get on, so slow!!!!!!!!!!
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Yup its down now for us too
ACE
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Having problems getting in, to shitty had many orders to do :(
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Just manged to get on now. gd luck peoples.
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Just manged to get on now. gd luck peoples.
BULLSHIT
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Damn man. Even I cant get on. Wont be happy with pissed off customers. They have to give a bit of leeway when they say ''go above and beyond for your customers'' because we cant at the moment :(. On the main page it says HELP the tor network bu setting up relays to support the tor network. So we suggest as soon as silkroad comes online we do as he says as we cant have this happening. Hope all is well peeps!
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It is intermittently coming back to life, keeping refreshing
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Just manged to get on now. gd luck peoples.
BULLSHIT
its back here dude
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[Info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received rendezvous descriptor (size 3258, status 200 ("OK"))
[Info] rend_cache_store_v2_desc_as_client(): We already have this service descriptor [scrubbed].
[Info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Successfully fetched v2 rendezvous descriptor.
[Notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
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Hope this isn't another attack :(
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Back up here and faster than this morning.
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Tor is choking on a botnet of >1 million zombies. It doesn't do much except being connected to Tor, but the Tor relays have problems because of it anyway.
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:'(
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dead again
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I get can on 1 computer but not another, weird
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I get can on 1 computer but not another, weird
No, it's not. It's Tor, itself, causing the problem. I requested another circuit network (stop/start tor), and SR is running really fast and smooth once I get in. This may have to do with the huge influx of Tor users this week since they are likely not running relays yet and taxing the network a bit.
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anyone else having problems connecting to the site?
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EVERY morning for the last couple days the site has been down for me. I go run some errands, eat lunch and its working awesome. DPR, what is going on?
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Its down for me now too since around 2am GMT
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Make sure your clock is synced.
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Maybe some slow ISP's are in, when it isn't loading even on 5th time try click on change identity...repeat several times.
Thank me later :)
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Both SR and forums have been hard to reach the last few days, sometimes a new identity works and sometimes restarting Tor Browser works, but it usually doesn't take long till one/both stops loading again.
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Market site giving me problems today. :( Its been slow and intermittent last few days, but today I can't get in at all. Anyone else?
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haven't been able to get in all day, either. :(
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Both the marketplace and the forums have been spotty for me all day as well. I have been waiting for a vendor to put up listings all day like an idiot, as I wanna scoop some up before it sells out. I guess they haven't been able to access the marketplace to put up the listings, and I'm growing bored.
Only so many blunts and booty-shake videos a man can stand before he gets cabin fever, fuck it I'm grabbing a pizza.
Save some dope for me.
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I've been able to access both the marketplace and forums, but only after a few new identities and a reconnect to tor. I think its an issue with tor because I had some difficulty connecting to the tor network; for some reason it would fail to connect then it would retry a couple more times before finally making a connection. Maybe this has to do with the recent spike in tor usage.
Also I noticed that deposits are delayed. Anyone else notice their deposits being slow?
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Save some dope for me.
SR and Forum have been spotty for me. Just got into SR and it was fast. First time that has been true in a while. Forums slow but functioning atm.
MC, I have some listings up 4 you :-) Watch out for the Bacon, I'm not sure people will like it. Burning DMT flavor if you ask me. Very strange.
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Mainsite works well for me..But the forums is hard to reach!
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Both working fine for me now! :)
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logged on for first time in 2 days wtf!! to find my orders from saturday are still in process . are vendors having trouble too!!
got a bit worried today when still nothing !!
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logged on for first time in 2 days wtf!! to find my orders from saturday are still in process . are vendors having trouble too!!
got a bit worried today when still nothing !!
Cant ship till tomorrow in the USA, so good they did not mark it in transit yet if they are here.
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hopefully it wont last for to long >:( forum is fine at the moment but no market again!!
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what the hell is going on with sr, that is almost unreachable since sunday (before it got slower and slower)?
since 2 days i almost cant get into sr.
before it got slower and slower, and since sunday its offline for me.
forum works.
other tor sites work
i see no tor problem.
only sr is offline.
late at night i was able to get in.
on sunday,
and today (monday).
what is going on here ?
some say its tor.
NO!
i can reach almost all sites.
only sr is down 99% of the time.
but it cannot keep trying every 20 minutes to find the 1% !
the most annoying - no dpr r team explanation.
as if all was normal.
that makes me more nervous than anything else.
is the 100% offline knocking at the door ?
or is it just some standard problem ?
but then - where is the explanation thread ?
is it a local phenomenon ?
there must be someone that knows more.
not all this guesses like here.
who has info about what is going on with sr (no, not tor, i can reach pother sites easily)
its just sr login page that would not show up all day long since 2 days.
i guess i am not the only one experiencing this.
but if the team/dpr dont say a word, it males me more nervous than anything.
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE ???
will sr be online again soon ?
or are problems getting worse ?
(from 99% offline to 100%)
does anyone (team?) KNOW anything ?
guesses dont help.
infos would.
anyone ?
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It is working fine for me.
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Guys calm down. It's just some botnet unintentionally terrorizing the whole Tor network because the creator of the botnet is an idiot. He uses Tor to let the bots communicate with the command and control server, but he didn't expect that +1 million bots fuck up Tor so badly that they won't be able to communicate properly. He will probably update the bots at some point to be less of a nuisance, because he has no use for a mostly unresponsive botnet. He most likely makes money with the botnet, and he can't make much money if the bots can't communicate properly because they overload or even crash the Tor relays.
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Both the site SR and the foums have been on and off all day today and yesterday for me and my partner also.
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I didn't have trouble yesterday but today service has been spotty for me. I've had more luck on SR than I have here on the forums. Forums have been off line for me for a bit but now I'm on. SR has been OK for me today
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Guys calm down. It's just some botnet unintentionally terrorizing the whole Tor network because the creator of the botnet is an idiot. He uses Tor to let the bots communicate with the command and control server, but he didn't expect that +1 million bots fuck up Tor so badly that they won't be able to communicate properly. He will probably update the bots at some point to be less of a nuisance, because he has no use for a mostly unresponsive botnet. He most likely makes money with the botnet, and he can't make much money if the bots can't communicate properly because they overload or even crash the Tor relays.
Is this free speculation on your part? That it's a "idiot botnet creator" I mean. Did you know that the other two black markets were down as well? Doesn't it point maybe to at this botnet thing being a guv thing, to disru[pt, at least for a while, our dear market(s)?
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SR is down for me......can get anything right now
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i do get some access here and there i am currently on thou!
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It's the massive increase in the number of clients connecting to the Tor network. It has gone from 500K per day to over 2 million per day.
https://metrics.torproject.org/direct-users.png?start=2013-01-01&events=off&end=2013-09-03&country=all
At the same time, the advertised bandwidth in the network has actually decreased.
https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.png?start=2013-01-01&end=2013-09-03
I've argued before that Tor is mostly CPU-bound, meaning that the crypto operations used to build circuits and push encrypted traffic are the limiting factor on the network. High bandwidth relays max out their CPUs long before they max out their bandwidth. Even with 1 Gbit ports, they can only push about 200-300 Mbit of traffic per core.
Some relay operators have posted to the tor-relays mailing list:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-August/002594.html
I'm currently seeing more than a doubling of connections (from a mean of
c. 2000 established connections to just over 5000) on my relay at
0xbaddad. The log is full of the (expected) messages:
"Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests!"
I guess this is related to the massive jump in connected clients
in the past few days and I assume that everyone else is seeing
something similar.
So even though the new clients don't seem to be doing much (bandwidth isn't increasing), maintaining open circuits for 4 times as many clients is straining the relays. The whole network is slowed down with increased lag and a high percentage of failures when connecting to sites. Because circuits to hidden services use twice as many relays as circuits to clearnet sites, we should expect hidden service to be affected more by this.
As for what's causing it, I don't think anyone knows yet.
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It's the massive increase in the number of clients connecting to the Tor network. It has gone from 500K per day to over 2 million per day.
https://metrics.torproject.org/direct-users.png?start=2013-01-01&events=off&end=2013-09-03&country=all
At the same time, the advertised bandwidth in the network has actually decreased.
https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.png?start=2013-01-01&end=2013-09-03
I've argued before that Tor is mostly CPU-bound, meaning that the crypto operations used to build circuits and push encrypted traffic are the limiting factor on the network. High bandwidth relays max out their CPUs long before they max out their bandwidth. Even with 1 Gbit ports, they can only push about 200-300 Mbit of traffic per core.
Some relay operators have posted to the tor-relays mailing list:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-August/002594.html
I'm currently seeing more than a doubling of connections (from a mean of
c. 2000 established connections to just over 5000) on my relay at
0xbaddad. The log is full of the (expected) messages:
"Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests!"
I guess this is related to the massive jump in connected clients
in the past few days and I assume that everyone else is seeing
something similar.
So even though the new clients don't seem to be doing much (bandwidth isn't increasing), maintaining open circuits for 4 times as many clients is straining the relays. The whole network is slowed down with increased lag and a high percentage of failures when connecting to sites. Because circuits to hidden services use twice as many relays as circuits to clearnet sites, we should expect hidden service to be affected more by this.
As for what's causing it, I don't think anyone knows yet.
Astor, is it just the number of people who want to be on tor increased markedly, and the average computer is just too slow to handle it, connection bandwidth notwithstanding? What about this story about the botnets?
What can be done short of buying new faster CPUs for everybody?
goblin
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There's only a million other threads about this. People, please stop posting we are all having trouble here.. best of luck to you though
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Astor, is it just the number of people who want to be on tor increased markedly, and the average computer is just too slow to handle it, connection bandwidth notwithstanding? What about this story about the botnets?
What can be done short of buying new faster CPUs for everybody?
It has nothing to do with the CPUs on the clients. The CPUs on the relays are maxed out. We either need fewer clients on the network or more relays.
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Astor, when SR says this:
"Silk Road is temporarily closed. We will reopen asap."
(like it does for me at this time),
Is it always true, or can it just be a message that comes up when the Tor system gets too overloaded?
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I got that message yesterday, and SR has worked fine for a little while so far tonight. Pretty fast too.
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Astor, when SR says this:
"Silk Road is temporarily closed. We will reopen asap."
(like it does for me at this time),
Is it always true, or can it just be a message that comes up when the Tor system gets too overloaded?
The connection is end-to-end encrypted between your client and the hidden service. If relays could inject messages into your hidden service connections, then Tor would be compromised. That's a message from SR.
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im on right now but not doing shit since its so unstable
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gave up earlier today :'( logged on but pages just timing out >:( not much better now :(
hope this gets better soon im finding this a bit depressing cant wait to place a order!!
been struggling for 5 days now!! wtf.
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I just ordered from a new vendor, and now I am positive neither of us can get on "The Road".
BlueBerryXHeadBand Shatter. 8)
Damnit PirateBAy. Everyone and their hipster parents are now clogging up the tor sea. Because of the PirateBrowser.
How ironic is it that the PirateBay is destroying AnonyBay.
Man destroys man made virtual sea. W0Ws3rs.
Sn0wd3n is the d3vil. If it werent for him PirateBrowser would not exist. That traitor. LOLz.
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Hello......been down for me all day......over 8 hours...... :-\..........
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The road has been down for me all this evening, only got in for an hour and now it wont load again. I presume bandwidth issues and TOR timeout.
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I was able to log in a few times to place my orders. I lost a lot with the Bitcoin drop though..
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Down too much lately, I can't get in more than can. Time out, too busy page appears. What's going on, is this a bandwidth error?? Can a super techie familiar with the road chime in tells us what maybe going on?
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Down too much lately, I can't get in more than can. Time out, too busy page appears. What's going on, is this a bandwidth error?? Can a super techie familiar with the road chime in tells us what maybe going on?
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=209957
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=209981
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For some reason I'm only able to connect in morning or at night not during the daytime >:(
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For some reason I'm only able to connect in morning or at night not during the daytime >:(
Daytime in the US is the peak volume of users on the market. Same thing happened last November during a surge in users. The site would slow to a crawl or be inaccessible during the the daytime and early evening US time, but it was fine at night and in the morning.
Now the Tor network is congested with 2 million new clients, making most hidden services difficult to access, but that is compounded by the daily surge in SR users in the daytime.
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Well, it seems I can connect to SR for the first time in 4 days when using Tor Browser on USB on an computer I rather not have tied to my main account, which fucking sucks because my tails USB on a laptop in one of many public wi-fi areas simply times out over, and over, and over.
I really hate for things to auto-finalize for the vendor, but my options are pretty much crap here.
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I cant access the main site at all today!
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For some reason I'm only able to connect in morning or at night not during the daytime >:(
Daytime in the US is the peak volume of users on the market. Same thing happened last November during a surge in users. The site would slow to a crawl or be inaccessible during the the daytime and early evening US time, but it was fine at night and in the morning.
Now the Tor network is congested with 2 million new clients, making most hidden services difficult to access, but that is compounded by the daily surge in SR users in the daytime.
A victim of its own success. If there is one thing I've learned by my SR experiences, it's to be patient and good things will come.
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Like others have mentioned it seems right now the greatest chance of getting on SR is to go on in the early morning or the late evening when there aren't many users trying to access the site. I was on last night and it was running smooth and fast like old times. And today I can't login and if I can it times out. I feel for the vendors who have to fill their orders with the site running like this. Must be incredibly frustrating. At least time isn't of the essence for me, but it is for the vendors.
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I was able to log in a few times to place my orders. I lost a lot with the Bitcoin drop though..
Is your vendor not ''pegged'' to the dollar?
How can you loose ''a lot''?...the difference between now and this morning (EU time) is 2 dollar a coin.
MTGox 12 hours ago 122 now 124
It sucks not be able to order but don't make a drama out of it.
If you can't ''loose'' a few dollar don't play this game.
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Like others have mentioned it seems right now the greatest chance of getting on SR is to go on in the early morning or the late evening when there aren't many users trying to access the site. I was on last night and it was running smooth and fast like old times. And today I can't login and if I can it times out. I feel for the vendors who have to fill their orders with the site running like this. Must be incredibly frustrating. At least time isn't of the essence for me, but it is for the vendors.
What is usually a big NO NO for me I do now....
As soon as I can log in I go to orders and copy everything to notepad so when all is down again I can send the orders...have all the info I need.
I will update later when possible but at least it will be on its way :-)
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was up and running earlier but now timing out constantly.
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spoke too soon it's back up! good luck everyone.
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I was able to log in a few times to place my orders. I lost a lot with the Bitcoin drop though..
Is your vendor not ''pegged'' to the dollar?
How can you loose ''a lot''?...the difference between now and this morning (EU time) is 2 dollar a coin.
MTGox 12 hours ago 122 now 124
It sucks not be able to order but don't make a drama out of it.
If you can't ''loose'' a few dollar don't play this game.
If you order or buy coins at a value, then the value drops over $10/coin like it did a few days ago, you can lose a lot of $ - esp if you can't afford the item once you can log in and have to reorder more coins and hope the price holds enough to get the order in. Btc fluctuations can be dramatic on the budget.
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is this it for sr?? constantly cant log in ?? 2 weeks now might have to use different market this is driving me mad :o
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Have patience, just the tor network being a bit fucky 8) keep trying and it will appear :)
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It's working for me now. A bit intermittent but it's working.
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Jees , what a night mare its been today trying to order & the forum is not much better (actually worse ) . I don't blame SR as i see its the tor network. is tor grinding to a gradual halt ?
Just glad im not a seller would be crazy :-/
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is this it for sr?? constantly cant log in ?? 2 weeks now might have to use different market this is driving me mad :o
I have to try a few times and have more trouble during the USA-daytime, but have been able to get on SR regularly. No trouble vending effectively.
Here are some tricks:
Put on your tinfoil hat :-)
Make sure silkroad is allowed on noscript (may not really matter)
Go to a Https website (you trust) in a browser tab to make sure you have a good Tor connection.
Once it loads fully, then, pretty quickly attempt to load SR on a different tab.
Once you do so, do Not look at a different tab until SR loads. Keep you mouse curser on the page SR is about to load on.
Keep the cursor moving on that page. (apparently, if you click over to another tab or stop moving your cursor, The page gives up trying as hard to load as it assumes you are not really there anymore).
Be patient and keep trying if it does not work. I don't think clicking "try again" (on a failed connection page) works as well as hitting a link/bookmark, or, "go" or "enter" in the address bar.
If this is not working, even when you are patient, you can try right clicking the green onion icon to try a "New Identity".
If you get to the log in page and the captcha has letters but no numbers, reload the page until it has both.
Once you are in, stay active or you may start to get a slower and slower connection. If that happens, be patient and speeds should pick up again.
If SR gets really, really slow; look forward to getting logged out and having to re-log in. I think of that as SR (or Tor?) clearing out the bots. Afterwards things usually run fast again.
If you took my "Put on your tinfoil hat :-)" comment seriously at the beginning, you might want to keep it on. Experts would probably tell you you can take it off now, though :-)