A new routing strategy and additional relay capacity have been rolled out for Torzon users in Europe. Live measurements show a noticeable drop in latency and fewer timeouts during peak hours compared to the previous network layout.
The upgrade focuses on exit-node proximity, smarter circuit selection and mirror health weighting, so EU traffic is automatically steered toward the most responsive Torzon endpoints without manual mirror switching.
Impact Snapshot
Latency Before vs After
Average page load times for EU users decreased from around 2.1 seconds to around 1.4 seconds on first hit, with follow‑up requests benefiting from connection reuse and caching.
Routing Strategy Changes
Mirror Health Weighting
Mirrors are now scored continuously based on response time, error rate and recent uptime. Clients are guided toward mirrors with the best current score instead of a static list.
Regional Hubs
Traffic from EU exit nodes prefers EU‑adjacent mirrors when they are healthy, reducing the number of long trans‑continental circuits and improving consistency.
Fast Failover
If a mirror starts timing out or returns repeated errors, it is temporarily deprioritized and traffic is shifted to healthy endpoints within a few seconds.
score(mirror) = f(latency, uptime_24h, error_rate);
if (score(primary) < threshold) {
primary = select_best_mirror(region = "EU");
}
Current Mirror Hubs
Regional hubs are abstracted behind the official onion entry points. Users do not need to manually choose a mirror; the network layer handles routing decisions.