CHANGING YOUR IP ADDRESS

How to change your IP address in less than a minute? The following trick gives you a step-by-step procedure to change your IP address. 

1. Click on “Start” in the bottom left hand corner of screen.

2. Click on “Run”.

3. Type in “command” and hit ok.You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.

4. Type “ipconfig /release” just like that, and hit “enter”.

5. Type “exit” and leave the prompt.

6. Right-click on “Network Places” or “My Network Places” on your desktop.

7. Click on “properties”.

You should now be on a screen with something titled “Local Area Connection”, or something close to that.

8. Right click on “Local Area Connection” and click “properties”.

9. Double-click on the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” from the list under the “General” tab.

10. Click on “Use the following IP address” under the “General” tab.

11. Create an IP address (It doesn’t matter what it is. I just type 1 and 2 until i fill the area up).

12. Press “Tab” and it should automatically fill in the “Subnet Mask” section with default numbers.

13. Hit the “Ok” button here.

14. Hit the “Ok” button again. You should now be back to the “Local Area Connection” screen.

15. Right-click back on “Local Area Connection” and go to properties again.

16. Go back to the “TCP/IP” settings.

17. This time, select “Obtain an IP address automatically”.

18. Hit “Ok”.

19. Hit “Ok” again.

20. You now have a new IP address.

Some ISPs do not support this type of procedure and hence there are chances of getting back the same old IP address even after trying this hack. In this case you need to switch off the modem and then switch it on to get the new IP address.

NOTE: All these tricks works only if you have a dynamic IP address. But if you have a static IP address you have no option to change your IP.

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HIDE YOUR IP ADDRESS

Every time your computer is connected to the Internet, it is assigned a public IP address which is used to uniquely identify your computer. Wherever you visit websites or use Internet services, your public IP is also transmetted and recorded in the logs kept on those servers. Thus, your IP address makes it possible to trace all your web activities back to you.

So, How do I Hide my IP Address?

The best and the easiest way to hide your IP address is by using a proxy server (anonymous proxy server) in one form or the other. A proxy server is a special type of server which acts as an intermediary between your home computer (or network) and rest of the Internet. This proxy server makes requests for Internet services/information on behalf of your computer using it’s own IP address instead of yours. The obtained information is then passed on to your computer. Thus, your computer is indirectly connected to the Internet via a proxy server where the IP address of the proxy server is exposed and your actual IP address remains concealed. Web proxies are identified by a combination of URL and TCP port number which is similar to something as below:

http://207.133.133.205:35

In the above example, http://207.133.133.205 is the URL of the proxy server and 35 is the port number. There are a variety of these proxy servers available:

Transparent Proxy Server
This type of proxy server identifies itself as a proxy server and also makes the original IP address available through the http headers. These are generally used to speed-up the web browsing since thay have a very good ability to cache websites. But they do not conceal the IP of it’s users. It is widely known as transparent proxy because it will expose your real IP address to the outside world. This type of proxy server will not hide your IP address.

Anonymous Proxy Server
This type of proxy server identifies itself as a proxy server, but does not make the original IP address available. Anonymous proxy server is detectable, but provides reasonable anonymity for most users. This type of proxy server will hide your IP address.

Distorting Proxy Server
A Distorting proxy server identifies itself as a proxy server, but make an incorrect original IP address available through the http headers. This type of proxy server will hide your IP address.

High Anonymity Proxy Server (Elite Proxy)
An Elite proxy server does not identify itself as a proxy server and will not make the original IP address available to the outside world. This type of proxy server will hide your IP address.

Which Proxy is the Best?

Clearly High Anonymity Proxy (Elite Proxy) is the best to hide your IP address. Because of it’s nature, the elite proxy neither identifies itself as a proxy server nor will expose your real IP address to the Internet. Hence, it provides maximum privacy for your Internet activities.

You can obtain a long list of proxy server URLs on Google and configure your browser settings so as to make them working for you. However, most of the free proxy servers you get on the Internet will not be effective in concealing your IP address. Even if some of them work they will be too slow and may take several minutes for a single webpage to load.

So, in order to connect to a blazing fast elite proxy server, I recommend you to use the following IP Hiding software:

Hide the IP (Tested)

Hide the IP will put you behind a blazing fast Elite Proxy Server(High Anonymous Proxy) with just a click of a button. With this program, you need not worry about configuring your browser settings.

All you have to do is just install the program and select the proxy server you want to be behind. It offers a list of countries from which you can decide which country to be indicated as your origin.

How to ensure that the IP is hidden?

Before you hide your IP address, you can check your real IP by visiting the following website:

WhatIsMyIPAddress.Com

Once you get your real IP, switch on your IP hiding software. Now once again visit the above site and check your IP address. If you see a new IP then this means that your software is doing the right job.

Also, the above site (Whatismyipaddress.com) is capable of detecting many proxies. If you see the words such as “suspected proxy server or network sharing device” or similar words then, it means that the proxy you are using is not an Elite Proxy.

Download Hide the IP now and see the difference for yourself. For more information on this product, visit Hide the IP homepage from the following link:

Hide the IP (Download Link)

HOW TO TRACE IP ADDRESS

In my earlier post I had discussed about how to capture the IP address of a remote computer. Once you obtain this IP address it is necessary to trace it back to it’s source. So in this post I will show you how to trace any IP address back to it’s source. In fact tracing an IP address is very simple and easy than we think. There exists many websites through which you can trace any IP address back to it’s source. One of my favorite site is ip2location.com.

Just go to http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx and enter the IP address that you want to trace in the dialog box and click on “Find Location”‘. With just a click of a button you can find the following information for any given IP address.

1. Country in which the IP is located

2. Region

3. City

4. Latitude/Longitude

5. Zip Code

6. Time Zone

7. Name of the ISP

8. Internet Speed

9. Weather Station

10. Area Code and

11. Domain name associated with the IP address.

A sample snapshot of the results from ip2location.com is given below

You can also visually trace route any IP address back to it’s location. For this just visit http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/ and enter the IP you want to trace in the dialog box and hit the “Proxy Trace” button. Wait for few seconds and the visual trace route tool displays the path Internet packets traverse to reach a specified destination.

HOW TO FIND IP ADDRESS OF REMOTE COMPUTER

Most of you may be curious to know how to find the IP address of your friend’s computer or to find the IP address of the person with whom you are chatting in Yahoo messenger or Gtalk. In this post I’ll show you how to find the IP address of a remote computer in simple steps.

I have created a PHP script to make it easier for you to find the IP address of the remote computer of your choice. Here is a step-by-step process to find out the IP address.

1. Download the IP Finder script (IP_Finder.ZIP) that I have created.

2. Open a new account in X10Hosting (or any free host that supports PHP).

3. Extract the IP_Finder.ZIP file and upload the two files ip.php and ip_log.txt into the root folder of your hosting account using the File Manager.

4. You can rename the ip.php to any name of your choice.

5. Set the permission to 777 on ip_log.txt.

Now you are all set to find the IP address of your friend or any remote computer of your choice. All you have to do is send the link of ip.php to your friend or the person with whom you’re chatting. Once the person click’s on the link, his/her IP address is recorded in the file ip_log.txt.

For your better understanding let’s take up the following example.

Suppose you open a new account in X10hosting.com with the subdomain as abc, then your IP Finder link would be

http://abc.x10hosting.com/ip.php

You have to send the above link to you friend via email or while chatting and ask him to visit that link. Once your friend clicks on the link, his IP address will be recorded along with the Date and Time in the ip_log.txt file. After recording the IP address, the script will redirect the person to google.com so as to avoid any suspicion.

To find the recorded IP address check the logs using the following link.

http://abc.x10hosting.com/ip_log.php

The sample log will be in the following format

79.92.144.237 Thursday 07th of May 2009 05:31:27 PM
59.45.144.237 Thursday 07th of May 2009 05:31:28 PM
123.92.144.237 Thursday 07th of May 2009 05:31:31 PM

NOTE: You have to replace abc with your subdomain name.