I need help...

[the last sheika]

Something's up with my IP adress. I don't know why, or what's happenning, but i'll give you a few examples

On a forum i'm on, i'm about to get banned for having loads of duplicate accounts, when i only have 1.

I went on a download site, and i wasn't allowed to download anything because my download limit had apparently been reached for that day. This message always came up.

Can someone please help, or at least explain what's happenning?

[wyrd_fish]

maybe the websites your going on are only mangaeing to get your ISPs IP addr?

[the last sheika]

maybe. i wouldn't be surprised. everyone knows AOL= teh crappy

[nathan123]

If by download site you mean rapidshare.de then that always happens, it only reaches your ISPs ip

[Bloopo]

Yeah, if you're using an ISP with a proxy (*waves fist at NTL*), that'll be the problem.

[the last sheika]

Ah... it is 'cos i'm on AOL. i'm admin on another site, and my freind with AOL has the same IP as me.

[The Grim Reaper]

Solution discovered:
Dont use AOL!
they dont even support online console gaming.....

[rob.nunn]

...my freind with AOL has the same IP as me.

What, exactly the same? That's really not clever. And I didn't know it was possible.

[wyrd_fish]

it's because there using a proxy to get websites for the users

as AOL have alot of poor poor customers they keep there costs down by keeping a cache of sites for a short while and sending people these rather than the 'live' sites*

and... as AOL has a monthly bandwidth limit your getting propper hoodwinked

*i assume, though i can't think of another reason for a proxy

[Bisyss]

I went on a download site, and i wasn't allowed to download anything because my download limit had apparently been reached for that day. This message always came up.waitaminute. You're on AOL, and you have a download limit? You are aware that you're meant to have unlimited downloads, right? I smell false advertising...

[wyrd_fish]

oh, i though AOL had limits... how queer

and i think it was alimit imposed by the site, by IP

[eleanor]

oh, i though AOL had limits... how queer

and i think it was alimit imposed by the site, by IP
Yeah, I download stuff from sites like that from time to time. Offtopic - I've seen copyrighted material available for free download from those sites... legality?

[wyrd_fish]

depends on wha the copyright holder thinks of it

if the copyright holder doesn't want it downloading for free, then it's quite ilegal*

*how do you spell this?

[MONKEY050]

*how do you spell this?

I-L-L-E-G-A-L :eng101:

Ontopic..
I've seen this happen too on many occasions with my town's website stats. AOL users having the same IP. Odd.

[nathan123]

NTL are quite good for this 2, and we now have a 1gb a day soft cap - im sure i constantly run over this. Can the NTL guy on here (i forget names) tell me what happens if i 'abuse' my connection by downloading too much - especially since i have 3 pcs

[nafrance]

As someone's already mentioned, it's the large ISP's and the transparent caching proxies they use (NTL, AOL and Freeserve/Wanadoo all do it).

Any boards where you get accused of multi-accounts, or sites like Rapidshare that say you're over your limit are basically referring to the proxy you're sat behind.

[One AOL proxy can have thousands of people behind it. NTL group theirs by area, so a lot of Manchester might appear through bagu-cache-x.server.ntli.net in Baguely, Oldham.]

If you get & use a proxy of your own (Google for them) then it will bypass the one at your ISP and hopefully stop the issue.