Forums mIRC Help Masked host - loss of speed?

Today when i logged on mirc i noticed that two things had changed since the last time i logged on. (in my old apartment.)

-irc.impact-media.me.uk- *** No Ident response
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-irc.impact-media.me.uk- *** Your host is masked (Rizon-6CEB500E.bredband.comhem.se)

Now, the problem isn't that mirc isn't working, i can join all the channels i want to. But when i try to get down some anime, my speed is down to 400kb/s from 1.1mb/s.

So my question is: Does this lack of speed have anything to do with the masking and no ident response or is it just the bots that's messing around? (I haven't changed speed when i moved)

I'm fairly new to mirc overall and this might have a simple solution or someone might already have posted a thread like this, but i couldn't find it.

With regards, Anelya.

Bump!

1) Be patient. Bumping topics in this forum is not supported, and even on the forums where it is supported, you normally have to wait at least 5 days before bumping a topic.

2) Your speed of reception is always going to be restricted by the upload speed of the person/bot/service that you are connecting to.

3) This has nothing to do with the fact that your host is masked.

4) Read this sticky

Ok, sorry about that.

Just one more question then i won't bother again for a while

I've looked around some on mirc FAQ and so on, but can't find the answer to:

Is there some way to un-mask your host?

i think is depend to the network services,

e.g: //mode $me -x

NOTE: I am not sure about it!

Since you're asking about unmasking your host, it's obvious that it's the network that is masking your host, thus it is dependent on the available settings options for that network.
Masking your host simply makes it harder for someone to track you by looking at your host address and then searching that address on the internet. It is, imo, more than anything, a privacy protection.

Your real host address is available to the network and IRCops on the network, as well as yourself at all times.

If you type you will see a return in the format of nick!ident@umasked.host.address