Every neighborhood has a switch, whether your on a dsl or cable line. The point of the switch is to prevent the electrical charge, the information being sent, from degrading, these are called packets. So switches are needed to receive the information, and send it out in another packet. If you stretched a solid line for 250 miles you would have massive data degradation, this is how electrical charges work, and even fiber-optic lines need for the signal to be re-boosted, just not as frequent as the standard electrical lines.
This is also why the MarP server seems slower and faster to others. For instance...
Im in the western united states, data must travel through switches all the way across the USA and then over to the server, this takes awhile. While say, someone in the UK is just a skip from the server, and the data is received much faster, because it goes through less switches.
The whole purpose of a switch is to receive the information and then send it out again. Switches can be traced down to neighborhoods, the more urban areas are gonna have more switches because of the population than say rural areas where the population is less dense! With the use of RDNS, it is quite easy to tell the city and state of an IP as thats how most ISP's classify them these days.
Nova
Here is a traceroute from a server to myself.....my IP has been bleeped out.
HOST LOSS RCVD SENT BEST AVG WORST
ge1-1-0-18-10g.core-01.easynews.com 0% 10 10 0.46 3.93 18.20
e-2-11-1000m.core-03.phx1.puregig.net 0% 10 10 0.34 0.77 1.79
ve5-10G.core-04.phx2.puregig.net 0% 10 10 0.31 6.38 55.18
69.16.128.137 0% 10 10 0.42 1.13 2.43
te-4-3.car2.Phoenix1.Level3.net 0% 10 10 0.76 6.52 52.30
ae-4-4.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net 0% 10 10 9.70 15.10 21.00
ae-62-62.csw1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net 0% 10 10 10.05 21.06 58.26
ae-13-69.car3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net 0% 10 10 10.03 14.94 42.20
sbc-level3-10ge.LosAngeles1.Level3.net 0% 10 10 11.05 19.94 84.66
* (MyIP block) 0% 10 10 25.96 35.89 98.51
*(MyIP block) 0% 10 10 25.87 33.56 63.91
*(MyIP block).sbcglobal.net 0% 10 10 25.77 26.87 30.57
??? 100% 0 10 0.00 0.00 0.00
As you can see, you are able to see each switch the information is sent, how long it took, and how much loss of data packets.
You dont need a warrant for it, anyone can do it....
Try it yourself, and test your data loss, traceroute.org allows you to test your connection to ISPs in several countries....
We as customers cannot fake/hide/manipulate our own ip addresses, it is public info wherever you go. Everytime you connect to yahoo, this site, it logs your IP, its like a fingerprint. We can get software that prevents unknown connections from happening (
port-snooping), connections we havent initialized ourselves. Only the server responsible for your DNS Authority can alter/assign a new ip address. For the record, most IPs are dyanimc and change everytime you flip that cable/dsl modem on and off!
If you have a STATIC IP it is set in stone and is a permanent IP that will never change, no matter how many times you cycle your modem or router! MAC Addy's can also be cloned, there is plenty of software out there that enables you to change the MAC Address of your hardware.
This site is 100% perfectly safe. Even if they did give the LEO your IP, so? They would still have to cross international lines to obtain any information, by which they would have to talk to MarP to get his permission to copy the information, and he doesnt have to say yes since its legal in the country where the server is being operated!
Smoke on!!!!!
Nova