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how to hop supernodes using your firewall - in the following example im using zone alarm pro 3
for this to work you need a little knowlage , and a program that traces ip addresses ,
im using visual route .
the first this to do is disable filesharing and pause all downloads.
its also a very good idea to reboot and reconnect so you get a new ip address .(note - if you use broadband , this works best if you have a dynamic ip adderss)
ok so you now should be connected to the net ,
and have Grokster running with sharing disabled and all downloads paused
next goto the run command (start>run)and type netstat 50 , this will give you a snapshot of who is connected to your pc for the next 50 seconds , look through the list that comes up for the number 1214
(it looks something like this :
pc3-guil4-0-cust164.gfd.cable.xxx.com:1214)
to find out the ip address for the super node , type or cut & paste this bit into the left side box on visual route , then click trace and copy the ip address as it apears in the right side box .
right click zone alarm pro (in the task bar by the clock) and open the contol center .
click 'firewall' from the menu on the left ,
you will see 2 'tabs' one marked 'main' and one marked 'Zones'
the zones tab is the one we need .
once at the 'zones' tab , you will see 4 buttons in the bottom right corner ,
click 'add' and select ip address from the popup menu .
type the ip address you got from visual route into the box provided & place it in the 'blocked' zone , click ok then click apply .
return to grokster and do a search , doesnt matter what for , its just to clear you from the supernode you are currently connected to .
once you reconnect to the network (on a different node , as the one you just left is now blocked by your firewall ) restart your downloads (you might want to do this AFTER checking netstat again to get the ip of the latest node) and most important - reenable sharing.
you should now find yourself on a new node with totaly different users , but best of all ,
you will still pick up the users you found on the last node and continue to download from them

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