# Nexus Mirror Signals

> The three Nexus Market onion addresses plus a reference for reading them. This site deliberately publishes no uptime figure, because reachability for an onion service is a property of the circuit between a visitor and the service rather than of the service alone. Instead it catalogues the twelve signals a Tor Browser can show, the normal timing ranges to compare against, and five procedures for acting on what you see.

Site: https://nexus-market-mirrors.online
Language: English
Updated: 2026-08-07
License: free to quote with attribution to nexus-market-mirrors.online

## What this site is

An independent reference. It is not Nexus Market. No accounts, no forms, no search box, nothing collected about visitors.

## Key facts

- Nexus Market publishes 3 onion addresses. All three reach the same market with the same account, balance, orders and messages behind each.
- The only difference between the addresses is the network path, which changes hour to hour. No address is permanently fastest, so no ranking is published.
- A cold first load of an onion service normally takes 8 to 45 seconds. Under heavy traffic up to 2 minutes is still healthy. Every page after the first reuses the circuit and takes 1 to 6 seconds.
- Onionsite Not Found (0xF0) means the descriptor lookup returned nothing. Retrying rarely helps. Switching addresses usually does.
- Onionsite Has Disconnected (0xF2) means the descriptor was found and the service did not answer, often during a restart or under load. This often clears within minutes.
- Connection failure (0xF3) most often points at a relay in the visitor own path. Requesting a new circuit for the site is the usual fix.
- Text loading fast while images crawl indicates a circuit with acceptable latency and poor throughput. A new circuit is the only real fix. Waiting does not help.
- Each onion address is a separate browser origin, so a session on one mirror does not carry to another. Two mirrors open at once causes repeated logouts.
- The address check is the only signal that ends a session rather than starting a diagnosis. A cloned page can copy the design perfectly and cannot live at the real address.

## Onion addresses

- http://nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onion/
- http://nexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onion/
- http://nexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onion/

Open in Tor Browser only. Before signing in, compare the onion printed on the login screen against the browser address bar, reading from the end backwards.

## Signal reference

### Reachability

Whether a circuit to the service can be built at all. These are the signals that end in an error page rather than a slow one.

- [Onionsite Not Found](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/descriptor-not-found) (0xF0): What the 0xF0 error means when a Nexus mirror will not open, why retrying rarely helps, and which of the three addresses to try next.
- [Onionsite Has Disconnected](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/service-disconnected) (0xF2): The 0xF2 error means the descriptor was found but the service did not answer. Why that is a better sign than it looks and how long to give it.
- [Unable to connect to the onionsite](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/introduction-failed) (0xF3): The 0xF3 error sits between a lookup failure and a real page, and it usually says more about your circuit than about the Nexus mirror.
- [No error page, just a spinner that gives up](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/silent-timeout): When a Nexus mirror produces no error at all and the tab simply spins, the useful information is in how long it spins before quitting.

### Latency

The page arrives, eventually. These signals tell you where the time is going and whether waiting will help.

- [Long wait before anything appears](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/first-byte-wait): Time to first byte on an onion service includes six relays and a rendezvous. What is normal for a Nexus mirror and when the number stops being normal.
- [Text lands fast, images crawl](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/asset-crawl): Why listing photos on a Nexus mirror lag well behind the page text, what that says about your circuit, and when to stop waiting.
- [The session freezes partway and then resumes](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/mid-session-stall): Pauses in the middle of a working Nexus session usually mean a relay dropped and the circuit is being rebuilt. Why waiting beats reloading.
- [Uploads and large pages stall out](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/throughput-drop): When image uploads to a Nexus mirror stall at a percentage or big pages stop halfway, the circuit has run out of usable bandwidth.

### Integrity

The page arrives and something about it is wrong. These are the signals worth stopping for rather than retrying.

- [The address on the page is not the address in your bar](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/address-mismatch): The one signal that ends a session rather than starting a diagnosis. How the check works on a Nexus mirror and why it cannot be faked.
- [The protection gate never lets you through](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/gate-loop): Anti flood gates on a Nexus mirror can loop forever. What causes the loop, why hammering makes it permanent and how to get past it.
- [Logged out on every page you open](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/session-drop): Constant logouts on a Nexus mirror are almost never the market. Where the session is actually being lost and what to check first.
- [The page loads but half of it is missing](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signal/partial-render): Unstyled pages and dead buttons on a Nexus mirror usually mean the assets did not arrive, not that the page is a fake. How to tell the two apart quickly.

## Procedures

- [How to take an honest reading of a mirror](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/runbook/take-a-reading): A repeatable way to measure whether a Nexus mirror is slow, broken or fine, without tooling and without fooling yourself.
- [Choosing which of the three mirrors to use](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/runbook/compare-the-three): The three Nexus addresses reach the same market. How to pick between them sensibly and why the fastest one today may not be tomorrow.
- [Requesting a new circuit, and when it actually helps](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/runbook/force-a-new-circuit): The single most useful control in Tor Browser for onion problems, what it does, what it costs and which symptoms it fixes.
- [Confirming you are on a real Nexus mirror](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/runbook/confirm-the-address): The check that separates the market from a convincing copy, why appearance proves nothing and what to do if the check fails.
- [What to do when none of the three answer](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/runbook/all-three-quiet): How to tell a service wide outage from a problem on your side, and the one action that turns an inconvenience into a loss.

## Sections

- [Nexus Market mirrors and what the signals mean](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/): The three Nexus Market onion addresses plus a full reference for reading them: error codes, normal timings, throughput signals and the checks that matter.
- [The three Nexus onion addresses](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/mirrors): All three verified Nexus Market mirrors with the check to run before signing in, how to choose between them and why one address is never enough.
- [Nexus mirror will not open, what am I seeing](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/what-am-i-seeing): Start here. Match what is actually on your screen against this table and it points at the one page that explains it and the one thing worth doing next.
- [Signal reference for Nexus mirrors](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/signals): Twelve signals a Tor Browser can show on a Nexus mirror, grouped by reachability, latency and integrity, with what each one means and does not mean.
- [What normal looks like on a Nexus mirror](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/baselines): Typical load times, throughput and failure rates for an onion service, so you can tell an actual problem from the network behaving as designed.
- [Procedures for Nexus mirror problems](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/runbooks): Five short procedures covering how to take a reading, choose a mirror, request a new circuit, confirm an address and handle a full outage.
- [Terms used when reading onion signals](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/glossary): Plain definitions for descriptor, introduction point, rendezvous, guard, cold load, throughput and the other terms used across this reference.
- [Questions about Nexus mirrors](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/faq): Direct answers on how many mirrors exist, which is fastest, why live status pages cannot be truthful and what the common error messages mean.
- [About this reference and how it is built](https://nexus-market-mirrors.online/about): What this site publishes, why it deliberately shows no live uptime figure, how the timing ranges were arrived at and what it does not claim.

## Full text

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