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Sudden disconnection and IP address changing

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I suddenly got disconnected just before I posted the rule table, and then I was told that my IP address has changed.

I don't want to be given a former spammer's IP address.

ColorfulGalaxy got banned from Neography Wiki after someone secretly changed his IP address.
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Re: Sudden disconnection and IP address changing

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Citation needed wrote: July 30th, 2024, 8:53 am I suddenly got disconnected just before I posted the rule table, and then I was told that my IP address has changed.

I don't want to be given a former spammer's IP address.

ColorfulGalaxy got banned from Neography Wiki after someone secretly changed his IP address.
I'd say that that's all the kind of thing you would have to negotiate with your internet service provider.

Changing your IP address is certainly not something we could do at our end, even if we wanted to.
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Re: Sudden disconnection and IP address changing

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dvgrn wrote: July 30th, 2024, 4:43 pm
Citation needed wrote: July 30th, 2024, 8:53 am.
internet service provider

Now I suspect that they had hacked the internet service provider.

EDIT: The "ToDesk" app may be to blame.
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Re: Sudden disconnection and IP address changing

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The IP address that I had kept using until now has suddenly become unavailable. It seems that the network password has changed.
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