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Originally Posted by nichnich
you cannot hide your IP from your ISP because they are the one giving you access to the internet.
They have to assign the IP to you so that you can surf the net.
but you can try to hide your IP from external party
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Your ISP can see the total amount of in/out traffic but that's about it.
While you are connected to the VPN your ISP sees all packets going to and coming from a single IP address (the entry-IP address of the VPN server your computer is connected to).
Your ISP can NOT see:
- the real packets header
- the packets payload (i.e. the content you send and receive)
- the real origin and destinations of the packets
- the "real" protocol you use
- the applications you use
This is because everything is encrypted via your VPN connection. The strength of the encryption depends upon what you VPN provider uses for encryption. The good ones use AES-256-CBC cipher.