Online cardroom has blocked my computer

[James Pollack]

Party Poker has blocked my computer from accessing their site. I can't log
on with this machine. A different computer I have no problem logging on.
They say that too many accounts have been opened from this computer and they
are "suspicious" as to the activity. My account is accessible from another
computer, but I can't log onto this one. My question is this: What are they
using to identify that I am trying to access their site using the blocked
computer? Both computers share the same connection, dial up, from the same
phone line. I have searched and deleted anything Party Poker related from
the registry, deleted cookies, uninstalled, re installed and I still can't
log on. How are they identifying this specific computer and how do I get
around it?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Probably your IP address is being blocked.

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| Party Poker has blocked my computer from accessing their site. I can't log
| on with this machine. A different computer I have no problem logging on.
| They say that too many accounts have been opened from this computer and they
| are "suspicious" as to the activity. My account is accessible from another
| computer, but I can't log onto this one. My question is this: What are they
| using to identify that I am trying to access their site using the blocked
| computer? Both computers share the same connection, dial up, from the same
| phone line. I have searched and deleted anything Party Poker related from
| the registry, deleted cookies, uninstalled, re installed and I still can't
| log on. How are they identifying this specific computer and how do I get
| around it?

 

[Admiral Q]

Carey - the OP is dial up - gets a random IP from the modem pool with each
connection - no way - I'd say it may be the OP's modem MAC address, unique
to each computer just like a NIC, as the OP says one computer can, and one
cannot, both on dial-up.

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[Galen]

In Admiral Q <Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NOSPAM)@(SPAMNOT)hotmail.com> had this to
say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Carey - the OP is dial up - gets a random IP from the modem pool with
each connection - no way - I'd say it may be the OP's modem MAC
address, unique to each computer just like a NIC, as the OP says one
computer can, and one cannot, both on dial-up.

Or perhaps a hash based on that as the modem shouldn't (I don't think) be
broadcasting the MAC address??? The MAC address is only available at the
lowest level of the IP packet and thus shouldn't be broadcast nor able to be
retrieved by remote host. You're on to something though... It's probably a
hash value based on some hardware configuration (why not MAC?) or unique key
like many other machine ID codes in applications these days. This post is
just to add to the curiosity factor Thought I'd see what people had to
say about the idea...

Galen