Hide ip / Utorrent

[bu10may]

Hi, ive been using utorrent since its release almost, i dont know why i never registered on the forums.

but anyways, i have hide ip platinum, and it does change my ip address through the different proxies. supposedly it doesnt work with p2p. In utorrents options i copied the ip to the option "ip reported to tracker". Next, i put the port it used into the speed guide (it was port 80). i checked the port, and it reported that the port was opened at the ip address that was from the dominican republic.

My question is: does the ip obtained from the proxies show up in utorrent to other users or does my actual ip address show.

i wonder because in peerguardian, a few blocks came up that were trying to access my actual ip address.

thanks in advance for your help

[DreadWingKnight]

Your actual IP address shows because you don't proxy peer connections.

As for using peerguardian:

http://neuron2neuron.blogspot.com/2006/05/blocklist-balderdash.html

http://www.slyck.com/story1593_MediaDefender_Leak_Offers_BlueTack_Users_a_Reality_Check

[bu10may]

those are interesting articles about peerguardian.

so the Hide IP program is essentially useless?

[DreadWingKnight]

Pretty much, and in the long run it's just going to slow your transfers down anyway.

[bu10may]

if the hide ip program is useless, then how is a VPN effective? VPN go through overseas servers right?

[DreadWingKnight]

And can still eventually be tracked back to you.

The VPN services are only really for people who have really fucktard-ish isps.

[bu10may]

i see, thanks for your help,

just curious, what do you do to protect yourself or ip address?

[DreadWingKnight]

I don't bother. There's no point.

If they want to find me, they will. The same goes for you or anyone else.

[harshang2007]

Please Tell me how to hide the tray icon when the system boots i mean without an user interface?

They have mentioned switch like "/HIDE" but how to use this plt tell me

[jewelisheaven]

Where you launch uT from, whether it's the desktop or run... "path\to\utorrent.exe" /HIDE

It will bring up uT in boss key mode. MAKE SURE YOU SET A BOSSKEY prior to using this.