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stoicpotato | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It almost never works where I'm from. 
The country I'm from is literally the worst place for cyber activities. The current situation is very similiar to china, but way worse because at least in china they have high speed internet, in here, it usually doesn't get above 30-40 Mbps.
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Franz | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That's not bad at all; Plenty for streaming and other stuff. Of course it depends on what you want to do.
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the max | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Sorry to hear that. Just a couple of points that may help:

First, the Tor access performance is not a linear function of your bandwidth, it's more of a "whichever is lowest" function between your bandwidth and that of the onion circuit that you're on at the time - which rotates regularly, and can also be changed manually. So, while you may notice slowness every now and then, it won't be consistently awfully worse than using the Internet bareback, and the benefits should outweigh the inconvenience.
https://metrics.torproject.org/onionperf-throughput.html

And second, if there's a government firewall getting in the way, one of Tor's available pluggable transports ("bridges")  should take care of that for you.
https://tb-manual.torproject.org/circumvention/