I am guessing, the problem is DNS server activity.
Clear DNS on your computing device:
https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=13375
Clear Internet browser caches.
Quit everything and restart your computing device.
May interest:
https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/8/how-does-tor-route-dns-requests
One of the answers:
TOR clients do not, in general, directly do DNS requests. When you open a connection through the tor network you usually ask your client (on its socks ports) to connect you to a hostname and port, say www.example.com:80.
Your TOR client, once it has created a circuit, will send that hostname and port to the exit node in its RELAY_BEGIN cell.
The exit node will then do a DNS resolve and open a TCP connection to the target. Once that’s established it will tell your client that the connection is open, and for informational purposes will also tell your client what address that hostname resolved to.
TOR, in addition to that, has some sort of “remote DNS resolve” protocol built in. This support allows clients to query for certain resource types, like IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Here too, the exit node does the actual DNS packet sending and receiving and just relays the answer to the client.
No UDP packets are actually ever routed from the client.
Remove & reinstall. Usually less time-consuming that troubleshooting.
I don’t mean to hijack a thread, but since it’s a computer thread I thought I’d jump in. Today I am going to install a new SSD and RAM in my older laptop. The physical act of doing it looks relatively simple, but does anybody have any tips or advise? I’m just a little nervous about it.