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<DIV>I’m new to TOR. I’ve been using it for some weeks for online privacy.</DIV>
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<DIV>I’ve installed TOR and Privoxy from the latest Windows Vidalia Bundle and configured my Internet Explorer 7 manually. Everything seems to work fine when I test my connection on such testing sites on the internet.</DIV>
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<DIV>My question is: When I start Privoxy and TOR, my computer starts immediately to stream data over the internet. It mostly downloads, and sometimes it downloads 1MB of data each minute, or more, for a long while. It also sends data, but in a much lower rate. This seems to be strange, because I don’t have any active internet application running - and as soon as I shut down the TOR engine, the streaming stops. The reason for me looking at this as strange or suspicious is because sometimes this happens and sometime it doesn’t when I start the TOR engine. Sometimes I just need to shut it down and restart it, and after a new circuit is made, the connection is inactive unless I start to use internet application, such as browsing the web.</DIV>
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<DIV>Why does this happen?<BR>Is every TOR user a TOR Server or Exit Node as well?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks in advance,<BR>Greetings from Norway</DIV><BR>
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