There is a particular public hotspot where tor takes like an hour to establish a connection on. It’s stuck on 10% shows a running count of connection attempts upwards of 40.
What does this mean? Is it that the wi-fi operator is blocking guard nodes, but perhaps only a snapshot of guard nodes? When I finally connect, is it a case where I managed to get a more recent guard node than the wi-fi operator knows about?
Not sure how that makes sense. Why would a captive portal block the 1st 39 attempts but not the 40th, for example?
My workaround is to establish a VPN (which happens quickly w/out issue) then run tor over that, which is also instantly working over the VPN.