PCMI cards

[Guest]

Hi,

I got a PCMI card that works through 3G. When I check my ip address location at www.whatismyipaddress.com it sais my location is in texas. Now this is strange cause I am located outside of the u.s. and the card was bought outside the u.s. and my ISP is outside the us. I have disabled TOR. How safe are these PCMI cards? Why would my ip address be in texas? I checked other friends cards and one of them had an ip in california and the other also in tx. So I am sure i'm not the only one. Maybe all PCMI cards get routed to the U.S.? anyone else with this problem? Please inform.


Peace

 

[ItsGrowTime]

Thats just where the WHOIS data says your IP address is registered to. Probably the gateway servers are located in those US states so your assigned IP address corresponds to that location, not your physical location. Sounds like a nice built in proxy you have there

 

[Guest]

This may sound like a dumb question to some. But here it goes:

What is a gateway server?

Just checked my ip again and now it sais i'm in L.A.

If it is a proxy server, the proxy owner can see everything I send or recieve from my connection right?

 

[Verite]

??? Do you mean PCMCIA cards?

 

[ItsGrowTime]

This may sound like a dumb question to some. But here it goes:

What is a gateway server?

Just checked my ip again and now it sais i'm in L.A.

If it is a proxy server, the proxy owner can see everything I send or recieve from my connection right?

A gateway server is basically the server that acts as the gateway between your ISP's private network and the internet. If your traffic is going through that server and your assigned IP address is registered to the ISP in LA or TX or whatever the WHOIS data will be for wherever their offices or gateways servers or any one of a number of other possibilities are.

Hard to say about the proxy server or whether they are even using a proxy server. I meant that if the IP is showing as being from somewhere else LEO would have a harder time pinpointing you if they wanted to. I have spoken with numerous ISP employees and I have never heard of any ISPs keeping logs of their customers web activity as a SOP.

 

[Guest]

Hmmm - let me guess.

Your ip starts with 192.168.x.x

The ip you're seeing is a private network address - not a real internet ip.

You are behind a router.

ws

 

[ItsGrowTime]

www.whatismyipaddress.com wont return a 192.168.xx.xx number. It would return whatever the gateway servers or the routers IP is. Outside servers won't know what his internal private IP address is.

 

[Guest]

www.whatismyipaddress.com wont return a 192.168.xx.xx number. It would return whatever the gateway servers or the routers IP is...

Interesting - but incorrect.

Use the ip lookup function at www.whatismyipaddress.com. Check 192.168.0.1. It comes up with this;

Traceroute
Tracing route to 192.168.0.1
Hop Time Host IP Location
1 18.509 wsip-70-183-59-1.oc.oc.cox.net 70.183.59.1 Irvine, CA, United States
2 27.092 rsmtdsrc02-gew03020996.rd.oc.cox.net 68.4.15.5 Irvine, CA, United States
3 15.993 ip68-4-14-109.oc.oc.cox.net 68.4.14.109 Irvine, CA, United States
4 29.413 ip68-4-14-242.oc.oc.cox.net 68.4.14.242 Irvine, CA, United States
5 42.16 wsip-64-58-133-134.oc.oc.cox.net 64.58.133.134 Dana Point, CA, United States

ws

 

[ItsGrowTime]

Interesting - but incorrect.

Use the ip lookup function at www.whatismyipaddress.com. Check 192.168.0.1. It comes up with this;

Traceroute
Tracing route to 192.168.0.1
Hop Time Host IP Location
1 18.509 wsip-70-183-59-1.oc.oc.cox.net 70.183.59.1 Irvine, CA, United States
2 27.092 rsmtdsrc02-gew03020996.rd.oc.cox.net 68.4.15.5 Irvine, CA, United States
3 15.993 ip68-4-14-109.oc.oc.cox.net 68.4.14.109 Irvine, CA, United States
4 29.413 ip68-4-14-242.oc.oc.cox.net 68.4.14.242 Irvine, CA, United States
5 42.16 wsip-64-58-133-134.oc.oc.cox.net 64.58.133.134 Dana Point, CA, United States

ws

Im not really sure what you are getting at? The OP said he just checked his IP through that site and it says he is in LA or TX or wherever. That site clearly displays location according to the WHOIS data of whatever your IP is showing up as. I doubt the OP ran an IP Lookup on 192.168.0.1 as the basis for the question....and there's no way that site would detect his IP as 192.168.0.1 anyway.

 

[Guest]

Im not really sure what you are getting at? The OP said he just checked his IP through that site and it says he is in LA or TX or wherever. That site clearly displays location according to the WHOIS data of whatever your IP is showing up as. I doubt the OP ran an IP Lookup on 192.168.0.1 as the basis for the question....and there's no way that site would detect his IP as 192.168.0.1 anyway.

I have an unfair advantage, in that I can remember things really well, and I also have over 20 yrs computer experience. And someone else had this issue earlier, and I was right there too...

That's what I'm getting at - let's have the original poster put up his numbers.

One of us is wrong - and my money isn't on you to be right.

But thanks for playing.

Peace and pot to you, anyway

ws

 

[ItsGrowTime]

I wasnt aware it was a contest?
And I think I recall the thread you are talking about but it was a different situation. The other thread was about someone questioning why they had someone trying to hack into their router but the end result was it was another device on his network and he did a WHOIS on that IP (which was a 192.168.xx.xx) and the IP was within his network. Thats hardly the same situation as this topic.

**Hey OP, feel free to post what www.whatismyipaddress.com shows as your IP when you visit the site initially. At least to put this to rest.**

EDIT: I have 14 years experience, including running numerous websites, modding forums such as this, and have quite a good memory too. Weed intake notwithstanding....so dont try to turn this into a qualifications debate.

 

[Guest]

NO, its NOT are routing address. I know what those are, I hooked one up at a house I got.

Also, I have 700 attacks on the ports of my PC but my firewall blocked em. They're IP's are all from L.A. and Texas. Who could be the culprit. I would like to get an exact address, anyone know how? Please let me know. Thanks for the replies.

Edit: Yes PCMCIA.

 

[Verite]

Im not sure how much sense your making.. but logic tells me its enough to confuse 60+ years of various technical backgrounds.

How do you know if these "attacks" as you call them arent from what you have opened and listening? [ (cmd line run) NETSTAT -a ] What port are they attacking and what are they sending to it and how often?

If its the standard XP firewall you'll find the info in c:\windows\pfirewall.log [ provided your logging ] .. I just looked at mine and it 'restarted' a new file at 4am on 4-29 and is currently around 902k in size [ guessing around 500+ pages of information of dropped unsolicited packets mostly to port 137, 138 netbios-nameservice.]

At 30 listings a page thats 15000 potential 'attacks' as you might call them. None of which I would call anything but normal web traffic probing. If you have done the system sweep of spyware and viruses then you'll reduce alot of that traffic.

 

[Guest]

hi verite,

Well, I'm using a certain zone firewall. They try to attack various ports each time. The attack count is up to 801 today. It states some of the attacks are high rated. Please inform

 

[Guest]

:-(

 

[ItsGrowTime]

Sounds like you need to get a professional on-site to diagnose your issue. If no intrusions though I wouldnt worry too much about it.

 

[Verite]

hi verite,

Well, I'm using a certain zone firewall. They try to attack various ports each time. The attack count is up to 801 today. It states some of the attacks are high rated. Please inform

Heres your choices of things you can do..

1] Mark down every IP address of every 'attack' zone alarm is reporting to you. Cut and paste the IP address into the following link to get the info of whos responsible for that IP address. You should get names, e-mail addys, and phone #'s.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp?

Then contact each one of them and send them a copy of your zone alarm report indicating your wish for them to cease and decist from any further intrusions to your home private network. Make sure you contact them all so youre thourough about your desire to have them stop.

Then dont be surprised when zone alarm starts to report 10-200 times the normal daily 'attacks' because you have put yourself onto a thousand different radars you werent previously on.

2] You can accept the sage wisdom of what people have already told you.. that its probably normal web probing traffic from any of a 1000 different software programs you have installed.. to the 100's of random tracking cookies your browsers using .. all the way down to the way remote possibility you are being 'hacked'.

Hackers arent stupid generally and even if they are their programing buddies arent so they are always ten steps ahead of anything Zone Alarm or anyone else is doing to remain undetected. Those have been the rules of the game since day one and nothings going to change that.

3] Best thing you can do is educate yourself from the source rather than a 3rd party.. especially when the third party is always a stoner party.

http://forums.zonealarm.com/zonelabs/

 

[Guest]

yeah bro just because your fw software shows there being "attempted hacks" on your machine doesn't really mean some kid is chilling around waiting to steal your mp3's. in most cases it's a piece of software making connections out (that need the internet), or maybe you have some kind of spyware/malware going on. maybe grab spybot or the ms spyware tool to do a scan.

oh and those 192.168. addresses are internal only. from what i remember they are reserved private addresses. kind of like a 10. class A net 172. class b and so on. the ip showing should be that of either your isp or your router. if you are behind a proxy, then yes everything goes through it, and can be looked at. depending on how paranoid you are, you can do what you gotta do. i will tell you this, i'm a sys admin and i could care less about what the hell my users are looking at. like i don't have better things to do! just my 2cents

 

[stevr59]

ummmmmmmm i just ran whatismyipaddress and it shows a dam map to my house and i am running proxiy and tor i thought tor and proxiy hid my isp addy?