IP Question

slantedone · Post by **slantedone** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:15 am

i know people talk on here about IP checks, but back in the day - didn't ISP providers like aol assign you a diff IP address every time you logged on? also, aren't there websites that will allow you to change your internet footprints but assigning you a diff IP?

i guess what i'm asking is - are there other methods for busting people besides IP checks because it seems to me that a savvy user could circumvent this pretty easily.

s.xkitten · Post by **s.xkitten** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:15 pm

yeah, there is a thread about this already...they won't tell you, but its not just an ip check, there is more

joeyjordison · Post by **joeyjordison** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:19 pm

yeh. don't know much about the technical stuff but they can tell in other ways.

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Backglass · Post by **Backglass** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:41 pm

MAC address.

slantedone · Post by **slantedone** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:06 am

thanks for answering to all!

cattrain · Post by **cattrain** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:54 am

s.xkitten wrote:yeah, there is a thread about this already...they won't tell you, but its not just an ip check, there is more

i dont know about that, me and my brother got temporally baned, just because we had the same ip... and we only played 2 games together, both times on the same team... it took a whole month to get back...

hawkeye · Post by **hawkeye** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:08 am

Backglass wrote:MAC address.

Acronym?

akirator · Post by **akirator** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:36 am

Media Access Control.

It's a hex number that's unique to each network adapter. Finding the MAC address can distinguish between people that play on the same network and might have the same IP, and people who play on the same computer.

But even finding someone's MAC address isn't the end, since you can get around this as well.

sully800 · Post by **sully800** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:09 am

cattrain wrote:i dont know about that, me and my brother got temporally baned, just because we had the same ip... and we only played 2 games together, both times on the same team... it took a whole month to get back...

Unfortunately mistakes do happen because it can be very hard to distinguish between multiple users on the same computer and one person with multiple names. But rest assured there is a lot more to the system than an IP check, and the appeal process hopefully sorts out most mistakes that are made against family members sharing a computer.

FODagler · Post by **FODagler** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:50 pm

And this can be a real F*CKING pain in the ass for people like me because pretty much the only time me and my friends play is together from school. And our school computers all have the same IP.

s.xkitten · Post by **s.xkitten** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:44 pm

sully800 wrote:
cattrain wrote:i dont know about that, me and my brother got temporally baned, just because we had the same ip... and we only played 2 games together, both times on the same team... it took a whole month to get back...

Unfortunately mistakes do happen because it can be very hard to distinguish between multiple users on the same computer and one person with multiple names. But rest assured there is a lot more to the system than an IP check, and the appeal process hopefully sorts out most mistakes that are made against family members sharing a computer.

and yet they still managed to "bust" my BF and i for multiple accounts...took me a while to get that one cleared up...

sully800 · Post by **sully800** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:47 pm

FODagler wrote:And this can be a real F*CKING pain in the ass for people like me because pretty much the only time me and my friends play is together from school. And our school computers all have the same IP.

And that is the reason we don't rely on IP checks, as stated previously.