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Hiding IP address?

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ruds

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Jan 5, 2011
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Apologies if this isn't the right place for this question or if the question subjects isn't actually correct. Here is my problem.

I am from the UK although for the next month I am in the US. I have a betting account in the UK which I actually use as a source of income as well as fun :rolleyes: However I cannot access it from the US because of the site's (William Hill) restrictions. Is there a way of hiding where I am so that I am able to login to the site? For the first two weeks of my trip it was working fine and now they have blocked my login, possibly after I tried withdrawing funds.

Once again I'm sorry for this being off topic but I can't think of anywhere else to put this and I am using a mbp if that gives it some relevance :)

Thank you
 
you cant hide your ip, any website you visit, your ip will show up.

but you can change it, personally the easiest way to change it IMO is a mac address clone then disable after 5 mins and you will get a new IP.

also if you are trying to break the websites restrictions based of GEO Location, i dont think anyone can help as helping break rules if against macrumors TOS.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

Use a proxy or a find a VPN provider with servers in the UK.

The VPN route would be more secure.
 
Thank you for your help guys, I'll follow up the suggestions and see if I can get logged in, I appreciate you help and sorry if I've broken any rules :)
 
Yes, VPN is the way to go (only use paid service if doing something that needs security).

Its not illegal. I use it all the time as I live in the Middle East temporarily, but use a U.S. VPN so I can still purchase stuff from Amazon, Ebay, watch Hulu, etc.
 
ruds said:
Apologies if this isn't the right place for this question or if the question subjects isn't actually correct. Here is my problem.

I am from the UK although for the next month I am in the US. I have a betting account in the UK which I actually use as a source of income as well as fun :rolleyes: However I cannot access it from the US because of the site's (William Hill) restrictions. Is there a way of hiding where I am so that I am able to login to the site? For the first two weeks of my trip it was working fine and now they have blocked my login, possibly after I tried withdrawing funds.

Once again I'm sorry for this being off topic but I can't think of anywhere else to put this and I am using a mbp if that gives it some relevance :)

Thank you
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A lot of financial websites or banks will lock out accounts if you withdraw money overseas.

I would try contacting them regarding that first as based on what you have said that seems likely.
 
Yes that is exactly what I think caused it, I tried to withdraw money and since then I cannot log back in. I emailed them and they said WH was not available in the US and I figured they had some way of monitoring where I was as a result. Maybe I can get someone to log back in from the UK and that will remove the lock until I try withdrawing again from the US (which I won't :D)

Thank you once again!
 
ive used free proxy services in the past just for fun for a short time to try and be more private but it was to slow for me for everyday use. However I think its what others have mentioned and your bank locked it because they saw this guy is from uk and it was accessed from usa so they locked it. so a proxy may not be needed.
 
You could also just setup a VPN with your home Internet in the UK. Or that of parents or friends. Whoever has a Desktop PC or fancy router with a flatrate.
It is free and not as annoyingly slow as public proxies which are darn hard to find too.
Private VPN clients exist a lot. I think one is called hamachi or something similar.
 
If you have a machine running in the UK, you could use something like LogMeIn to remote control your desktop and do what you want from there.
 
I feel it is my duty to reply to this thread :D
There are two different approaches to this problem:

Onion routing - Tor
Garlic routing - I2P

Choose which is more convenient and suitable for your needs ;)
 
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