Aestu wrote:
Tehra wrote:
Meowth wrote:
You are now aware of proxies and tunneling
you are now aware of decreased throughput and increased latency due to layers added to the communication protocol instead of simply routing a packet.
I'm sure china farmers and hackers care about their server ping when laundering mats and botting.
edit: Is it even possible for a proxy/tunnel to mirror any given IP? If the system works as advertised - "radically different" - then use of a proxy wouldn't resolve that the IP would still be different than usual.
You can tie in a latency monitor to the software to determine latency from the client to the server (as you already have in WoW), and then set the server to attempt pinging the client. As the client is originating in "questionable" land but routed through an endpoint that is not "drastically different", there would be a difference in those times. It's not difficult to set up a system for that.
As far as proxy/tunneling, you would generally be creating a tunnel from your questionable location to your home IP. Of course, that has to be set up before any gaming session in your other location. If you're using open proxies or tunneling, 1) it's horribly slow, and 2) you have a drastically different ip anyway.
Simply put, if you show up with a NYC residential ISP subnet, then show up with a Boston residential ISP subnet an hour later, you're flagged. I had discussed with Blizzard when I traveled to China regarding my ability to play while there. They said they couldn't guarantee that they wouldn't ban me, and I replied that if they couldn't determine that there was a gap in access equivalent or greater than the travel time to the "new" location, and then see normal access resume after the appropriate travel time again, then they needed to find better network analysis engineers.
Their reply was "you won't be banned, that's exactly how the system works."
Mind you, it's a weighted system that took into account country of origin. As you know with WoW, logging in from NYC and then from SF 5 minutes later and then NYC again doesn't set off any major flags.
