Crazy Thought: ISP's Transparent Prxy Protects against Mass Ban and Detection?

[mephuser1000]

Disclaimer: I don't have in-depth knowledge of how Transparent Prxies actually work. I might be giving erroneous info.

But I just remember something annoying about my previous ISP with those Rapidshare file sharing/download sites.

- My previous ISP used some sort of "Transparent Prxy to blanket over all the subscribers such that they seem to share one external IP (not sure abt Mac Address)

- So it ended up that all those Rapidshare file sharing/download sites were unusable, because millions? of users were fighting over the same slot and you will get the error message: "IP XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is currently downloading a file. Please wait for 20min" forever and ever.

- Noted one strange thing that I didn't get chained-banned for multi-botting WoW until I switched to a faster ISP.

- So in my opinion, Transparent Prxy is like a cheapskate way for the ISP to save on operating costs.

 

[Darwar]

It would be cheaper for the ISP since they would only have to pay for one public ip address. Then share it with all the subscribers.
You can do the same thing too if you share your ip address with everyone in your neighborhood.

 

[Obliv]

That would only stop them from banning by IP. They can still easily just shut down the account.

 

[Foss]

That would only stop them from banning by IP. They can still easily just shut down the account.

Agreed.

Imo it would make things more suspicious. And something like that could breach EULA.

 

[darkspyre0]

WOW. An ISP that had all it's subscribers on the same internet IP??? that must have been a very small ISP! I don't know any ISP that does that! But yea, must have sucked for those public sites that go by IP. Of course you could always just use a *** to get a diff. IP. But i'm sure you knew that already.

 

[Obliv]

I use a virtual private network... which is the same basic idea. I don't feel it protects me at all against getting banned, but it does protect me from getting the real life ban hammer from the RIAA/MPAA.

If you want safety, get a ***. They're cheap now, and offer excellent security. Probably won't stop you from getting banned, but I don't think it would hurt either.

** *** is a bad word around here. I did not know that.

 

[Olibot]

It's unlikely Blizzard even looks at IP more than a glance when it comes to juding if an account is legitimate or not. Very much due to what you've suggested. Universities, large families etc.. all using the same IP while one person would get entire networks banned? it's just not gonna happen.

Blizzard would rely on outright 3rd party app intrusion into packets and incredibly obvious statistics (such as online time, identical patterns, gold collected, etc..). IP is a long dead method of banning.

 

[Radonic]

Are you still going on about IPs are shit when it comes to bans.
Ive done 10 bots 24/7 for several weeks and no ban have even touched me.
Too many places share the same IP, so why ban by IP?
I would rather think that they ban you for what you do ingame.
Since its the game that you are banned from!

Btw ive botted for YEARS in wow, never ever have i felt the banhammer.
Stop thinking like we were in the 90s or something