Re: To Be Sacrificed - Beast
I'm not exactly sure HOW it works either. Way I understand it, you know how a regular IP address is around 10 digits? Well, mine is abit longer than that, and only the last few digits are different from a few hundred other people. Apparently, those sites have some problems reading IPs past the first 10 digits, so it groups us all together as a single IP.
Or maybe this whole thing is just me mistaking stuff. Either way, I can't use any site with a concurrent download limit.
...an IPv4 address is a 32-bit number, grouped into four eight-bit numbers separated by decimals. That translates into four numbers, each from zero to 255, separated by decimals. So they look anything like "0.0.0.0" through to "255.255.255.255". A 10-or-more-digit IP doesn't tell us anything given this setup.
There's a function called a
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, which lets networks allocate IPs of their own. Generally IPs of this type start "172.16.xxx.xxx" through "172.31.xxx.xxx", or "192.168.xxx.xxx". These IPs are special, in that they are only valid addresses within a particular network. This lets these addresses be used many times over, once in each network. This is often used at universities, small companies, and at home - and the internet as a whole only sees the router connecting the network to it.
So yeah, you're on a shared connection, and you've got a one-in-hundreds chance of being the one guy that gets through to Hotfile/Megaupload/Rapidshare/etc., because the fileservers only see one IP making hundreds of requests.