Author Topic: hide ip (Read 1509 times)

golyadkin101 · « **on:** April 10, 2006, 08:17:52 pm »

hi

how do i hide my ip from ther users on mx, so that they cant get it from my Who-is or from the hash beside my name when they browse me?

thanks

nylly444 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2006, 08:37:31 pm »

connect secondary - then they'll see the ip of the primary you're connected to.

golyadkin101 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2006, 11:26:29 pm »

what do you mean exactly? but if i connect secondary then i get the speed of primary

nylly444 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2006, 06:18:22 am »

The primaries are forming the actual network in WinMx - they're connected to each other and each has several secondaries attached.
All network traffic to a secondary user is routed through the primary he's attached to - that's what the bandwidth is used for that you assign to a primary connection.
It also means that the hash numbers of that secondary is the IP of the primary. Therefor others on the network can't see the secondary's IP.
The speed you get in transfers is the same, no matter if primary or secondary.
When on primary the connection is more stable on the cost of some bandwidth - and you help forming a stronger network

KM · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2006, 11:00:29 am »

file transfers etc are direct, and if anyone wants your current IP Address it's not exactly hard to find it, as with any p2p application. the hash is seriously unreliable and nobody would bother using that to try and find your IP Address if they wanted it, they would confirm it with something like a file transfer