Kitz Forum
Internet => General Internet => Topic started by: ralphw on December 10, 2008, 12:23:39 PM
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Is there any fairly straight forward way I can hide my IP address details from admin etc of a forum that I am on?
I am a mod on the forum and as such not expected to get involved in some of the more heated discussion. But I feel in some instances that I want to add my opinion and at present cannot.
OK so I could go to an internet cafe or the like, and use another persona from there, but that is not a very satifactory option.
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Try googling for 'proxy servers'.
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OK thanks...
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http://www.iesurf.info/
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I think you will find that that is ok for general web surfing, but not for forums.
There may be several reasons why, firstly you may not be allowed to post or even join using a proxy, not to mention notification emails if available (although those would probably not be wanted under the circumstance)
Bottom line, I don't think it is possible.
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UltraSurf 9.1
http://www.ultrareach.com/
I use both of these but I do not normally put any login details through them.
I do know a way it can be done but will cost you money.
Fire up a dialup account through a modem while still connected to broadband and your IP will be different, but you will be paying for the dialup costs.
Try it and see, first visit http://www.whatsmyip.org
Start up the dialup account (You can make a free one with orange).
http://www.orange.co.uk/time/dialup/
Go back to http://www.whatsmyip.org/ and see the IP.
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Good point.
Yes a dial-up account would solve all the problems and as you will only use it "possibly" occasionally, should not cost you to much.
There are a few around that do not need any software installed, you just pay for the call time, on average the last time I used it it was on average 4p per minute during the daytime but cheaper during the evening.
If you have Virgin Media it is free, just type 179 into the dial-up box along with your "original" user-name.
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Testing 123
Testing again
Never seemed to work here, maybe Kitz has some cache for IP.
I did have both ADSL and dialup running at same time, and whatsmyip did change the IP shown, but on this site it never changed.
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>> maybe Kitz has some cache for IP.
Nope
>> I did have both ADSL and dialup running at same time,
You can only have 1 IP per network connection, so will depend on which connection your browser is using. When I tried it ages ago, my browser always used my adsl IP.
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Thanks Britbrat, I look into these suggestions.
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>> maybe Kitz has some cache for IP.
Nope
>> I did have both ADSL and dialup running at same time,
You can only have 1 IP per network connection, so will depend on which connection your browser is using. When I tried it ages ago, my browser always used my adsl IP.
Just out of interest Kitz, could you check the logs to see if I did come in on another IP at any time around about 11:10 - 11:15 today.
One may be Orange and the other Virgin rather than my Zen IP.
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Hmm you would have had to make a post for it to show in the logs. SMF doesn't log ALL forum activity, it just tracks which IP addresses users make posts from., to avoid having stupidly large logfiles!
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Chris he made a post at:-
Reply #7 on: Today at 11:13:08 AM
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> and the other Virgin
Don't forget what I said earlier with regards to the free connection from VM.
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Oops, yes I did see that, I just worded my post a bt badly!
@ Brit - did you close and re-open your browser after connecting to dial-up? If not that might be a possibility.
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Not sure if I did I will do it again later.
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Look on this site http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/howto.htm it will keep you quite for a bit.
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Just to reiterate on my earlier comment of, this is all well and good for general surfing, but not where you need to register.
The only other option would be to get a second modem and change them over.
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:hmm: So not as easy after all...
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No.......
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TESTING
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Test results:
Yes it works.
Broadband only:
(https://forum.kitz.co.uk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv708%2FB0XS%2FKitz_2.jpg&hash=643202e193ad2c6a4d9cc8d67d9d81f71eedc6c4)
Broadband and Dialup connected at same time.
(https://forum.kitz.co.uk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv708%2FB0XS%2FKitz_1.jpg&hash=8e1e38ad80dcedbf04e39ed21dc534c977f0bf21)
:hmm: So not as easy after all...
Yes that was easy but costs money, but I had to dial into accounts anyway.
If you have a 56K modem and a dialup account give it a try.
Note your IP http://www.whatsmyip.org
Close IE/FF
Start the dialup account and go to http://www.whatsmyip.org to view your IP and see if it changed.
BUT
If you are a mod on a board is it worth the risk of being banned?
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>> Yes that was easy but costs money, but I had to dial into accounts anyway.
One may be Orange and the other Virgin
Earlier you said you had a Virgin account, so why not use the free service?
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You misunderstood or I did.
I have a virgin dialup account not a broadband account.
Am I right in thinking you have to have Cable to get it free?
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You misunderstood or I did.
I have a virgin dialup account not a broadband account.
Am I right in thinking you have to have Cable to get it free?
Obviously a miss-understanding as previously you did not say it was Virgin dialup.
But yes, it's free if you have BB.
>> Am I right in thinking you have to have Cable to get it free?
Or at least a very good friends account number and password.
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Now I wish even more I could get cable :)
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I must add a caveat to this thread, whilst connecting with dial up, your IP address will still be recorded and if you cause any offfence you can still be reported/traced back via the dial-up address you used.
IP addresses are there for a reason and if you do something under another IP that causes offence then you can still be reported and if serious enough tracked back. Afterall there does have to be some record somewhere in an attempt to protect our kids from the likes of paedophiles etc.
On top of that, if discovered, then most forums will take a stern view of 'multi-iding' and ban any users caught doing such thing.
There are some forums that will approve their staff or certain members a 'play name'* but it is usually in the case of if say normally posts in an official capacity on the tech type boards, but wants to let their hair down a little in chitchat... on the provision that they dont attempt to mislead anyone.
*just to clarify
- its not something done on this site.
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Oh well looks like second persona will have to be local internet cafe.... :(
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Hi,im banned from computeractive for daring to tell the deputy editor to include the price of a pc tower and operating system when quoting a price regarding a poster(Aardwollf) wondering if he should build or buy a pc.
You can visit their forum through a proxy server,but each page takes 1 minute to load,so its not worth wasting your time IMO.
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Thanks Robin, not a good option then...
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Hello Ralph
Try "hide my *ss" and youll see what i mean.Naff graphics and pages take ages to load.Its a web page so no program to load
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Yes I see what you mean, not a site to inspire confidence...
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You can visit their forum through a proxy server,
I think there needs to be a reminder of the original question.
The basis being. The OP would like to access a forum under a alias to be able to reply to posts and not be recognised as a already registered member by the admin staff.
With using the same computer this will not be possible because the admin staff will be able to see that the IP address also corresponds with another registered member.
Using programs that hide your IP address are only of use for general surfing so as not to leave a trail of your personal IP address.
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Try Hotspot shield (http://anonym.to/?http://hotspotshield.com).