Hide IP address on wifi or changing IP

darweshs · Feb 7, 2012

Is there a way to hide the ip, mask it, make it non static, or something while on wifi?

bab2010 · Feb 7, 2012

No... There is no app to modify the settings> wifi/ pane.

darweshs · Feb 7, 2012

Nothing from Cydia. What about making it a nonstatic ip, just like you can in win7

Jmills87 · Feb 7, 2012

Your IP has to do with your internet service provider, there's nothing you can do about it through your iPhone. If your ISP provides you with a static IP, that's all you can use.

darweshs · Feb 8, 2012

It does
On a wifi network. Not on a cellular like 3G. What I'm talking about is someone within the network im in tracking me and seeing what I'm doing.

Jmills87 · Feb 8, 2012

That's because the cellular data IP is assigned by your cellphone company. Your cellular IP depends on which radio tower you are connected to which is why it is dynamic. There's no way to make a static IP from your ISP be dynamic.

If you are not the network administrator, there's nothing you can do to hide your activity when you are connected to that network.

pianoman · Feb 9, 2012

What does "see what you're doing" mean? To my knowledge this is not possible, known IP or not.

Jmills87 · Feb 9, 2012

Sure it is, whoever the network administrator is, they can log into the router and see the network activity of all connected devices.

pianoman · Feb 9, 2012

Jmills87 said:
Sure it is, whoever the network administrator is, they can log into the router and see the network activity of all connected devices.

i don't think that's what he meant. i knew you can see sites visited, etc. but you can't see keystrokes, screen data (without password access) - so no one could ever see the numbers i'm adding to my quicken register. that's the point i was making. all you can see thru the router (without password access to the computer bearing the mac address you're observing) is "who is connected" (by ip/mac address) and url's visited. am I missing something?

darweshs · Feb 10, 2012

I want to make sure that no one, when I'm on a public protected network, is able to view that I'm even on. The reason is that I'm doing confidential work, and when I'm on my phone, on 3G its ok because AT&T encrypts it for me. But on wifi, the admin could see what websites I'm accessing (no porn, to clear that out) and potentially hijack the data. If my ip is masked or changing, they will have a much harder time doing that. It's only when I'm traveling and on a wifi net.

pianoman · Feb 10, 2012

darweshs said:
I want to make sure that no one, when I'm on a public protected network, is able to view that I'm even on. The reason is that I'm doing confidential work, and when I'm on my phone, on 3G its ok because AT&T encrypts it for me. But on wifi, the admin could see what websites I'm accessing (no porn, to clear that out) and potentially hijack the data. If my ip is masked or changing, they will have a much harder time doing that. It's only when I'm traveling and on a wifi net.

ok then. yes. the sites you are accessing when connected to public wifi can be seen by the administrators of the network. only 3G/4G cellular are encrypted.