Wanted: Free VPN anonymiser

No - there was an article about me that I objected to and I said that I was going to report them to the IPSO for bias, so after that they banned me from making any comments to their online pages.

Idiot. Just report them.

Do you have a smart phone? If so you could use that, you could even set it up as a wifi hotspot which could be used by a PC.

Personally, I would recommend a paid for VPN, for everyday use, to prevent some monitoring by your ISP.

Virtually guaranteed as you will now be connected to a different router at the exchange which will, onviously, be allocated a different range of IP addresses.

No. Most people leave their routers on all the time. If you reboot your router, you will be allocated the first free IP address - which will almost certainly be the one you've just relinquished.

The only way to be certain is to find someone with an IP address in the same range - good luck with that! - and arrange with them to reboot their router in a suitable sequence with yours.

That sequence will depend on hether their current IP addrtess is higher or lower than yours to ensure that you get their address and vice-versa!

I have never owned a mobile phone, but I have just signed up with hide.me and now have a Dutch VPN! I can post comments now OK too.

Thanks all for the help.

Kaspersky has a secure browsing feature that allows up to 200 MB per day, enough for posting snarky comments to online boards.

But you still normally need to log in to your target rag, and then they will still recognise you, surely ?.

:)

There are no *IP* routers at the exchange. Ip is tunneled (typically over frame relay) back to wherever the ISP has its kit. That is where the IP address is assigned.

So what happens is that YOUR router connects via ADSL or VDSL to the exghange, where is syncs to a port in a DSLAM.

The DSLAM is a frame relay router, and will open up a frame relay style point to point link to your ISP. Over BT (typically) backhaul.

You router then normally request from your ISP using DHCP protocol,. to be assigned an IP address. And a defaultgateway and probably DNS as well. Ip is carried over the frame relay and VDSL links but is never examined on the way for routing or filtering purposes.

I have moved through 3 different exchanges and still have mny same IP address, and would keep it if I upgarded to FTTC if I wanted it. Thats in the purview of my ISP.

Not necessarily.

Its entirely dependent on whether a fixed IP has been assigned to your login credentials. In the days of modems dynamic allocation allowed many people to share a limited number of IP address,. With 'always on'; broadband it makes no sense. But some people still allocate dynamically.

Utter cobblers

No, it wont. Its almost completely random.

Well usually one simply nymshifts.

I have no knowledge of how systems operated by BT or using their equipment works.

My background was working for ntl (before it became Virgin Media.

Every headend or hub had Cisco routers which alocated IP addresses. The routers were fed from the fibre backbone and were connected to the same fibres feeding the street equipment as the DTV feed.

Although they were moving to a more dynamic system to avoid wasting large number of unused IP addresses, the headend/hub routers allocated the IP addresses to the broadband routers in customer homes.

comments to their website threads for some reason. I have worked out that my IP address is on a blacklist and that if I use an anonymiser, I can post my comments.

nternet access unless I gave them my card details, so I uninstalled it. Is there a useful free VPN anonymiser that works out there?

me and now have a Dutch VPN! I can post comments now OK too.

You can make up a phony user name and spam it with "you can earn $200 an ho ur" stuff, but they seem to have this rule that can ban you for life for be ing persona non grata.

QUOTE: "We reserve the right to moderate or delete User Generated Content and if f or any reason we edit any post or edit or close any thread, we will not ent er into any discussion of our reasons for doing so."

"In the event that you are in breach of our Terms and Conditions relating t o User Generated Content and/or these Standards at any time, or you do not respect the spirit of the community or make postings which demand a disprop ortionate amount of time and moderation, your account may be suspended or y ou may be banned from the site. The length of any suspension will be at our sole discretion.

If your account is suspended or you are banned you may not open another acc ount with us and we reserve the right to terminate any such account. In the event that you continue to contravene our Terms and Conditions relating to User Generated Content and/or these Standards we reserve the right to cont act your employer or your internet service provider."

QUOTE: "If your account is suspended or you are banned you may not open another ac count with us and we reserve the right to terminate any such account. In th e event that you continue to contravene our Terms and Conditions relating t o User Generated Content and/or these Standards we reserve the right to con tact your employer or your internet service provider."

I have seen both scenarios with dynamic allocation.

ISPs that provide sticky ones that are the same when your modem reconnects even after an hour or more downtime,

and ISPs that give out volatile (for want of a better word) IPs that always change when the connection is briefly interrupted.

With the first type, it doesn't seem to be a login credentials that keeps the IP constant, I found a guaranteed method of getting a fresh IP allocated was to spoof a different MAC on the WAN port

Yes, I thought that too. I would however be quite impressed if a Hull newspaper was using such joined-up thinking, and basing their policy on the unusual communication practices in its catchment area.

So report them and stop tying to make comments on their website.

Although I am sure I was correct first time.

Are you old enough to remember Mandy Rice-Davies?

I can now see your Dutch IP address in your USENET headers, and if you care about anonymity and REALLY MUST post to USENET using Google Groups, that's a good move given your static address.

I was trying to make that point earlier but perhaps I was being too subtle.