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How to change your IP address

to be able to cut you off after 72 minutes Megavideo needs to keep track of you somehow, they do not want to cut off everybody as soon as just 1 person has watched 72 minutes of video. there are 3 ways that a website can keep track of you:

By your IP address
With Cookies and Super-Cookies
By exploiting security holes in plugins

I could go in depth in each of these methods but for the moment (16 april 2010 and its been like that for a while) Megavideo is only using the first method to keep track of you and how many minutes of video you have watched. So thats all we need to concentrate on.

First of all you must know about your IP address that it is a number that identifies your connection on the public network that is the internet. When you subscribe to get the internet at your home, the company that you get your internet from will give you a connection with an IP of yours. now if you have more than 1 computer in the home and you split that connection with a router, all the computers in your house will be sharing the same public IP address on the internet, that also means that if someone else in your house is watching some movie on megavideo and they use up their time limit, it will also burn it up for all the computers in the house, also if you are in an hotel or a school, typically the whole hotel or school will share 1 public IP address for everyone.

there are 2 ways that you can change your IP address:

By changing the IP that you get from your internet company
By using a proxy

changing the IP that you get from your internet company

I strongly recommend that you use this way to change your IP in order to watch more Megavideo. the reason for that is that this way you will always get an IP that is fast and yours alone.

Many people have reported that they can change their IP address simply by restarting their modem (disconnect it from the electricity for 10 seconds and then reconnect it). Its worth verifying if you can do that, after trying it, you can simply reload this page and look at your IP address on top of the page to see if it has changed. If it did, there you go, you now have a simple way that you can change your IP. everytime your time runs out on Megavideo you can just do that and reload the page and keep watching from where you were at.

Unfortunatly for most people that will probably not work; after restarting their modem in the way described above and reloading this page, they will find out that their ISP have re-assigned them the exact same IP address that they had in the first place.

The reason for this is that most properly configured servers will use "leases" when assiging IP addresses to clients. Depending on the server's configuration the lease can last many hours, days or months.

But this lease is attached to the MAC address of your network card. the MAC address of a network card is a unique serial number that all the network cards have. So because of this there is a simple way to get a new lease: connect in a different network card and you will get a completely new IP and a brand new lease which will obliterate your initial lease, you can then reconnect the modem in the network card where it belongs and get once again a completely different IP and you can then watch more Megavideo.

An example of doing this would be this: if you have 1 router and 1 computer at home, your modem connects in your router and your router connects in your computer and thats how you normally get the internet, but to change your IP you can just disconnect the modem from the router and plug the modem straight in your computer instead, then wait for the computer to try to get an IP from the modem and when its done (even if the connection actually failed) reconnect the modem in the router and your router will be getting a new IP.

If you dont have a router but more than 1 computer available you can just connect in another computer and reconnect in the first computer for the same result.

Or also if you just have 1 computer no router but your modem is able to connect to your computer either by ethernet or by USB, then just switching from 1 method of connecting to the other will cause you to lose your lease and get a new IP.

So as you can see all you have to do is disconnect your modem from what its connected in and plug it in something else for a few seconds and then reconnect where it belonged again to completely obliterate your lease.

Though there will be cases where theres no way that you can or want to change the ip that your modem gets. somes reasons why you could not do it could be this:

you modem and router are built-in togheter
you do not have access to your modem (example: school, hotel, workplace...)
you internet company is renting you a static IP (most internet company rent dynamic IP (can change) unless you are on a commercial connection and are paying specifically to get a static IP)

and some reasons why you would not want to do it to could be this:

you might have some things configured to use your IP that you dont want to change
you might be sharing your connection with other people in the house and they will scream if you reset the modem...

using a proxy

So if you really must it is also possible to connect to Megavideo with a different IP address without reseting your connection simply by using a proxy.

While it works perfectly fine to stream Megavideo through a proxy you will in practice find that it is sometimes hard to find a proxy that does the job cos it seems that all of them are either too slow or then someone else has already burnt up the time on it. But with a bit of perseverance and luck you can always end up finding one that will do the job and continue watching your video (hopefully it wont have taken you 42 minutes!).

There are 2 types of proxies, the open proxies and the web proxies, to watch Megavideo you need to use an open proxy (with your browser) a web proxy just wont work. I have made myself a site called proxyfuzz that lists thousands of Open Proxies it also explains how to use an open proxy on Firefox or Opera and will help you get an idea of what proxies look like and how to use them. But feel free to also consult your favorite search engine to find more lists of open proxies.

So now you should know all about how you can change your IP address to continue watching more Megavideo after your time limit has run out. If you have any question or there is anything that you did not understand, please visit the forum to ask your question and i can try to assist you further.