KazooSkinsFan wrote:Deadskins wrote:you cannot mask your IP unless you can do it from the other side of your ISP.
1) Your IP address can change. Your ISP will try to assign you the same number but they don't always.
2) When Freak mentioned anonymizer sites absolutely you can hide your IP. Basically you connect to their servers and they connect to the Hogs so The Hogs doesn't know your IP address.
3) You can have multiple ISPs and change ISPs.
4) Not only is there home and work, but you can use a library network, boyfriend, girldfriend, parents, ...
5) Now with WiFi you can go to a hot spot.
Its not just that your IP address CAN change. Its that it most likely WILL change.
Pretty much nobody has a static IP address on their personal computer anymore, especially home users. If you're on FIOS or Comcast or whatever, you get a dynamically assigned IP address. The IP may stay the same for a short while, but it will change at some point. You actually have to pay considerably more (and get a business account in most cases) to have a static IP address.