Interesting...

[Virus Guy]

"G. Morgan" wrote:

> I go there now it says:
> "Well, you are in the clear. But look what others do"
>
> I run Peerguardian, must work, eh?

Depends on whether or not your ISP has a policy of trying to always give
you the same IP address. A policy which I'm curious about - along the
lines of who does it, in which countries is that typical, etc.

I always get a different IP address when I tell my router to perform a
disconnect/reconnect cycle. Which is very handy to be able to do when
you're downloading from file-lockers who try to limit free users based
on IP address.

===========
Hi. We have no records on you.

This means you are using a private torrent tracker or,
of course, you may not be a torrent user at all!
It happens.
===========

It's odd that this "you have downloaded" site doesn't give "Your IP
address has changed" as a possible reason why it's not detecting any P2P
activity from your (current) IP address. I would have thought that it
would be at the top of the list of reasons.

This site was in the news a few months ago when some people ran the IP
addresses for some well-known institutions (ie - Buckingham Palace) and
it came back with some positive P2P results.

[FromTheRafters]

Virus Guy wrote:

[...]

> It's odd that this "you have downloaded" site doesn't give "Your IP
> address has changed" as a possible reason why it's not detecting any P2P
> activity from your (current) IP address. I would have thought that it
> would be at the top of the list of reasons.

I don't think there is any 'fingerprinting' going on here - only IP
addresses.

[G. Morgan]

Virus Guy wrote:

>> I go there now it says:
>> "Well, you are in the clear. But look what others do"
>>
>> I run Peerguardian, must work, eh?
>
>Depends on whether or not your ISP has a policy of trying to always give
>you the same IP address. A policy which I'm curious about - along the
>lines of who does it, in which countries is that typical, etc.

I have not even bothered to check that. Uptime is 95% sans the
occasional power blink-out. Remote access is done with LogMeIn, so I
don't worry about my IP changing.

[Aardvark]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:47:42 -0600, G. Morgan wrote:

> Virus Guy wrote:
>
>>> I go there now it says:
>>> "Well, you are in the clear. But look what others do"
>>>
>>> I run Peerguardian, must work, eh?
>>
>>Depends on whether or not your ISP has a policy of trying to always give
>>you the same IP address. A policy which I'm curious about - along the
>>lines of who does it, in which countries is that typical, etc.
>
> I have not even bothered to check that. Uptime is 95% sans the
> occasional power blink-out. Remote access is done with LogMeIn, so I
> don't worry about my IP changing.

I've had the same Ip for at least six months that I know of.



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