Change IP address

Hello,

Show on the internet your Public address (77.XXX.XX.XXX) is a very bad thing.

That’s equivalent to saying "Welcome to hackers, enjoy it!"

The IP address 192.168.1.1 lets you connect to your Internet Box.

The IP address provided by your ISP is a Dynamic address that can change at each connection, every week.

The one and only thing to do if your program requests a different public IP connection is:

- Restart your MODEM/Router; sometimes this changes the IP address depending on the provider.

- Use a VPN or a Proxy

- Request a Dynamic IP if your ISP has given you a Static IP.<

and Windows cannot change the provider's IP.

Thank you for your very interesting explanations. Using a VPN will not change the fixed IP address that comes from my internet box, because for the program in question it is installed and I do not go through a website to make it work. It concerns sharing my internet connection for which I am paid. And so, from one PC to another, it is the same box and therefore the same IP address. I understand well that Windows cannot modify it.

Hello Brupala!

I rent out my bandwidth, using the software "Honeygain." I have two PCs on the same internet box, the second one won't generate revenue because it's the same IP address. Hence my question about changing my IP, do you understand better now? I'm looking into it; if it's not possible with a VPN, I think, because I don't go through a website, but through the program directly, well, I suppose I'm not a network expert like you. Have a nice day.

Hi,

I roughly looked at your weird software, essentially you turn your PC into a proxy for external connections, which I have trouble seeing the point of.

If you want to install it on another PC, a remote NAT client (VPN) would indeed need to be active permanently on that second PC and that PC would have to stay online continuously, or even another connection.

Uninstall the program, install the VPN, reinstall it and run it; it will connect with another IP address as a result. To be seen.

Ah these new square avatars, they were better round, the world turned more like the Earth has ????

Hello,

I just visited the site, they write,

" As you share your Internet connection through the Honeygain network, our business partners can access the web from your location. This way, you help companies and organizations view the Internet as it is seen by real people – without any location-based restrictions or censorship. Here are the most popular use cases for your network! ".

which translates into French,

" Lorsque vous partagez votre connexion Internet via le réseau Honeygain, nos partenaires commerciaux peuvent accéder au Web depuis votre emplacement. De cette façon, vous aidez les entreprises et les organisations à voir Internet comme le voient de vraies personnes – sans aucune restriction ni censure basées sur la localisation. Voici les cas d'utilisation les plus populaires pour votre réseau ! ".

What they formulate in a very commercial way. It is to have Internet with no restrictions or censorship based on location, that is, they have rented out your IP address to scrape, geo-block bypass, or residential proxy traffic.

You take on your responsibility. On the Internet, it is your Internet subscription (your box, your name) that is linked to the IP address used. If one of the partners uses your IP to carry out illicit activities (hacking attempts, mass sending of spam, bypassing security measures on a site, etc.), the malicious activity is recorded as coming from your home.

Financial gains are anyway so derisory that they are not worth sacrificing peace of mind and taking any risk to the security of your Internet connection.

Moreover, leaving a device on 24/7 just to run the app is usually not cost-effective compared to the electricity cost.

Hi,

If it’s genuinely for commercial accessibility testing from IP addresses that wouldn’t normally be referenced as VPN providers, one can assume they won’t mess with their own base of “virgin” addresses and connections, which are hard-won, with illegal actions that could get them blacklisted, as sometimes happens with well-known VPS hosting addresses; I’ve experienced this with Ionos, not to name names.