<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 9/26/11, cmeclax-sazri <i><cmeclax-sazri@ixazon.dynip.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: cmeclax-sazri <cmeclax-sazri@ixazon.dynip.com><br>Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Why am I "sending" so much traffic when connecting to websites?<br>To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org<br>Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 11:05 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Monday 26 September 2011 11:06:25 William Wrightman wrote:<br>> I was looking at the "bandwidth" graph in Vidalia and there was one thing I<br>> did not understand. <br>><br>> I loaded three webpages (www.telegraph.co.uk), (www.wired.com/threatlevel),<br>> and (www.bbc.co.uk). I received 6.7MB of traffic (which seems a lot but I<br>> guess not when everyone is using
broadband) but what I found surprising was<br>> that I also sent 3.6MB.<br>><br>> I have no idea why I would be sending so much traffic?<br>><br>> I tried with a couple of other exit nodes and roughly got the same results.<br><br>The Telegraph has 331 images. Fetching each one requires that you send a <br>request for it. This request is expanded to a Tor packet, which is 586 bytes <br>including some overhead. That multiplies out to 194 kB. Then each of those <br>connections has to be opened and closed, which takes another two Tor packets <br>per connection. I'm not sure how that works out when many images are on the <br>same site.<br>_______________________________________________<br>tor-talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:tor-talk@lists.torproject.org" href="/mc/compose?to=tor-talk@lists.torproject.org">tor-talk@lists.torproject.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk"
target="_blank">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk</a><br><br><br>I see your point. So in effect the more graphically intensive the page the more traffic a Tor user is sending.<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>