Can a Router Have More Than One Public IP Address
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My partner stays with me every weekend and cannot access her bookmaker account to place sports bet through my WiFi or router as I also have an account with the same bookmaker. Placing bets which include special offers from the same IP address are not allowed. She has to use her mobile phone and go through the mobile network, which is deadful in our area.
This is the problem, they know your using a VPN and close your account.
They would not be able to do this with a "good" VPN implementation. As long as you aren't stupid and go into and out of your account on and off the VPN quickly there is no reason they should think you aren't entering from a perfectly legitimate location. Even better if you can find a decent UK based one. Maybe not going with a "big" VPN provider would help as their IP's may be tagged to them. Think smaller like, good friend with some slack bandwidth?
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The problem is they're starting to deny all traffic from IP addresses originating from datacentres.
The only way to slow this down is to have the reverseDNS similar to what is displayed for a residential ISP but even then they'll catch on eventually or just look at route objects.
So a good friend with a pi sat behind his router would be ideal then. Residential ISP with residential endpoint. No problems at all (although I wouldn't let a friend VPN into my network).
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Yeah pretty much the only way to be 100% sure. I had to give on bet365 as it just started showing a blank page at work and 4G wasn't reliable enough.
Could just restrict the VPN network to a local subnet isolated from your own equipment and it wouldn't really impose any additional threat other than misuse of an IP address affiliated with yourself.
As a matched bettor and someone in the tech sector who has a few bookmakers as clients, I can tell you this is the best advice or tether to a phone but you've said poor reception rules that out. VPNs are OK, but CTOs in these firms are going through a period of trying to discover all the VPN provider's IP ranges and flagging accounts using them. You don't want to draw attention to yourself. I suspect as VPN usage becomes more prevalent in the coming years bookmakers and other content providers will need to look at this policy. For now however, just like with iPlayer, Netflix and lots of other folks who don't like the idea of VPN usage because of the side effect of it being able to circumvent stuff, the bookmakers frown upon it.
Yeah, might be cheaper to just buy a second line!
@BigT Why don't they want single people placing multiple bets? Surely a bet's a bet... so they've got just as much chance of losing as winning, no?
The openreach modem supports PPPoE and Multiple fixed IP's. I use that behind a Fortinet Fortigate 30e VPN firewall. So basically nothing too special but still your looking at anything from £300 for some kit that supports it. I think the Draytek Vigor supports it as well as a few other devices that can be picked up on the cheap as well.
My ISP - Eclipse, also support on the fly changing of IP address configuration and I am sure that many more do also. I pay something like £35 quid a month for my fiber package with the choice of single fixed, two fixed or multiple fixed configurations.
Something exactly like this would do the trick
It really does show that I am somewhat out of the loop.