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[mdgames3000]

i dont play neopets but i might if they really cant IP ban me. I have a wireless internet connection and every 18-30 hours of use my internet disconnects and reconnects and my ip changes. lol. or do you think they would disable my account because im using so many diff IP's? i just want your thoughts on weather i should or shouldnt play. because if i cant then damn i could create 20 accounts on 20 diff emails and just log on each one and never be caught using the same IP on all of them lol.

Edited by mdgames3000, 29 August 2007 - 05:08 AM.

[Big Joe]

You will either get banned or get an account banned sooner or later.
You never know.
But, if you are playing legit, and they ban you, that is a whole different story.
If you are using a proxy then you will probably get banned sooner or later.

[Jake]

You can find a proxy, and stick to that one, or give a detailed message to TNT explaining that this is what happens and if it would be allowed.

[Cript]

Sounds to me like the DHCP lease on your wireless router is short...are you sure you're getting a different external ip or just a different internal one?

Also, if they want to...they will just range ban you. They threatened to ban my entire college's ip range if I didn't quit :-P

[Hawk]

Sounds to me like the DHCP lease on your wireless router is short...are you sure you're getting a different external ip or just a different internal one?

Also, if they want to...they will just range ban you. They threatened to ban my entire college's ip range if I didn't quit :-P

Was that before or after the legal letter?

[Cript]

Was that before or after the legal letter?

During...this was them telling our school's technology director that they'd ban everyone if they didn't make me quit playing...apparently there were others on neopets at my school...kinda funny.

[spottedtiger]

They threatened to ban my entire college's ip range if I didn't quit :-P

what did you do???

[dontai24]

so you had to stop playing?..... that would suck if you did.

[mdgames3000]

well its not really a range of IPs. a few days ago i was 65.82.106.19 and today im 29.41.23.106 and another time i was 208.54.106.119. ive just been writing them down.... and there is like no connection that i can see. and when i go to myipaddress.com sometimes it says i am in laconia other times it says im in rochester so the IPs are way different lol.

[Cript]

well its not really a range of IPs. a few days ago i was 65.82.106.19 and today im 29.41.23.106 and another time i was 208.54.106.119. ive just been writing them down.... and there is like no connection that i can see. and when i go to myipaddress.com sometimes it says i am in laconia other times it says im in rochester so the IPs are way different lol.

Wow, way different range...your isp is crazy :-P.

They'd never be able to ban you.

only downside is that they may freeze your accounts assuming people from multiple places are using it.

what did you do???

I was an extremely active member of a couple formerly well-known cheat sites. We put a notice on the noticeboard for 4 million np directing people to the site and also caused black pawkeet slots to be re-coded because we found a glitch.

Anyways, they got sick of freezing my accounts and decided to threaten legal action. I'm one of the very few non-programmers I've seen threatened.

so you had to stop playing?..... that would suck if you did.

It was something of an unhealthy obsession though. I mean, when autobuying was more fun...I'd have 37 accounts through which I'd cycle each time I got restock banned. I had a pretty sick connection (t1) at my disposal as well so no one came near touching me. I was finally banned with a super attack pea, faerie slingshot and about 200 mil worth of other items...I put all that together in under 2 months.

[Jake]

well its not really a range of IPs. a few days ago i was 65.82.106.19 and today im 29.41.23.106 and another time i was 208.54.106.119. ive just been writing them down.... and there is like no connection that i can see. and when i go to myipaddress.com sometimes it says i am in laconia other times it says im in rochester so the IPs are way different lol.

You are better off sticking with a proxy then.

It was something of an unhealthy obsession though. I mean, when autobuying was more fun...I'd have 37 accounts through which I'd cycle each time I got restock banned. I had a pretty sick connection (t1) at my disposal as well so no one came near touching me. I was finally banned with a super attack pea, faerie slingshot and about 200 mil worth of other items...I put all that together in under 2 months.

Wow.

[Cript]

Geez Cript Yeah, I'd never heard of a non-programmer being threatened before, I'm quite amazed actually. And I was wondering how they tackle the issue of university IPs actually.

Some universities would probably use internal DHCP so that many people would have the same external ip so if one got banned, all would. My school was very small and we had an entire class C to ourselves so we were each given different external IPs everytime our leases expired.

Pretty sweet. Even though they said they didn't, I'm quite confident they banned the whole school's range.

[Waser Lave]

Wow, way different range...your isp is crazy :-P.

They'd never be able to ban you.

only downside is that they may freeze your accounts assuming people from multiple places are using it.
I was an extremely active member of a couple formerly well-known cheat sites. We put a notice on the noticeboard for 4 million np directing people to the site and also caused black pawkeet slots to be re-coded because we found a glitch.

Anyways, they got sick of freezing my accounts and decided to threaten legal action. I'm one of the very few non-programmers I've seen threatened.
It was something of an unhealthy obsession though. I mean, when autobuying was more fun...I'd have 37 accounts through which I'd cycle each time I got restock banned. I had a pretty sick connection (t1) at my disposal as well so no one came near touching me. I was finally banned with a super attack pea, faerie slingshot and about 200 mil worth of other items...I put all that together in under 2 months.

Those were the good days.

[Cript]

Those were the good days.

I don't think it'll ever be as fun as it was....I still can't believe I wasn't frozen for autobuying, but for multi-accounting.

My main mistake was that I used different proxies for my safe accounts so they were frozen for "scamming" because it looked like they were being accessed from different places.

[Hawk]

Those were the good days.

[Sasha]

My main mistake was that I used different proxies for my safe accounts so they were frozen for "scamming" because it looked like they were being accessed from different places.

So then Tor isn't safe?
Is there any freeware program that won't switch proxies randomly?

[Dragon]

You could but don't create them all at one time because you'll get IP banned for sure. But since your Ip changes every bit and don't have a "good" account, you could try it and have some fun

[Cript]

So then Tor isn't safe?
Is there any freeware program that won't switch proxies randomly?

Programs have to switch proxies because most of them are super unreliable.