They recommend to disable Local Tracker Discovery, which isn’t far spread and should be disabled by default, when you suspect your traffic is being watched.

provide torrent files so you can download Tor packages with your favorite torrent client.

You are strongly advised to check the signature. The bot will put the bundle and a signature into a zipped archive. It asks you for your platform and sends you the right bundle. Send a message with the body “help” to “gettor AT ” or “gettor AT ” Then a bot replies with instructions, you have to understand a few words English. You require a Gmail account because the attachment is big. Anyone can provide a mirror, you could provide one, too. Please check the signature of the software regardless of the source you picked. Provided that one of the mirrors works you can get a list of all mirrors. If you are in need for a mirror, please contact me. The mirror contains just the distribution for all platforms. I operate a custom FTP mirror, which is not publicly listed. You probably can’t access the list of mirrors if is blocked. The Tor Project lists mirrors on its website. prevents the censor from filtering the traffic based on keywords. Try to learn about mirrors of Tor by using a search engine that provides and looking for “tor mirrors” (quotes are not required). sig/.asc file so you can check if somebody has tampered with the software.

However if you want to use Tor, but haven’t an old version around you can ask a friend for a copy. In such cases you can try to download Tor while using Tor provided you’ve got some version of it already. In this case you can try the “Pluggable Transports”. If someone is blocking the Tor website he might be trying to prevent you from using the Tor network as well. So you try your luck on and it gives you a warning, a blocking page, a network error. In some places the website of Tor is blocked in order to prevent people from learning about it and downloading. How to download Tor when their website is blocked?

Tor project mirror