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PSA: IP bans do not work that way.

Terozu·4/13/2017, 10:29:37 AM·3 votes·2,559 views

I'm getting sort of annoyed by all the people who say "IP ban this person already", and also feeling sympathetic for the people who are scared of playing in a different state or on a different pc because they think it will get them banned because their IP changed.
That isn't how it works. That isn't how IPs work. https://img.memesuper.com/6b29ed564c5063d826e0a7f89a9e25a7_to-work-love-this-and-this-isnt-how-any-of-this-works-meme_985-720.jpeg Your IP is an identification number provided to your computer by your ISP on startup. This means that every time you turn off and back on your computer, you will have a new IP. You will not get banned for your IP changing, else there'd be no LoL players. Riot will almost definitely not ban an IP address, because then some random other person might be affected by it.
They might however, ban a batch of IPs if an ISP does something to warrant said action. But that is their choice. Thank you for reading, this ha been a Public Service Announcement, brought to you by an extremely novice computer programmer.

--EDIT--

Yes, I know not all IP addresses change; those are called static, I know this, but those about 90% of the time, aren't assigned to public users, public users like you and me, get dynamic IPs, assigned to us each time we turn on our computer, it is assigned from a selection of IPs that are issued to the router upon powering it on, or that is at least how my instructor explained it to my class, eitherway, IP bans won't work the way people think, and you still can't get in trouble for playing on a different computer and/or location.

11 Comments

SEKAI4/13/2017, 11:28:30 AM2 votes

To clarify from my understanding: Your IP doesn't change when you restart your computer. Though I am no expert, correct if I'm wrong on this, but I am pretty sure to change IP, it's either via reconfiguration of a certain things (like your router using admin console) or moving to another network, or something like that, and I think you could also request the ISP to change your IP rather easily too. Anyway, changing IP isn't hard, though it's not as easy as restarting your PC.

The reason why Riot doesn't IP ban people is however, due to the external and internal IP aspect of the internet, where external IP is how outside network sees you, while internal IP is how every devices within the same local network sees each other

The problem with IP bans is that, it blocks the external IP, which can contain god-knows-what amount of local devices within its internal network. It could be a household with potentially multiple league players, or it could be an entire internet cafe and of which has nothing to do with the rule-breaking player outside of the fact one of the machines was used by them.

That is why bans are targeted at terminating the accounts, and not blocking the IP.

EDIT: MM adds that IP pretty much changes every time it restarts.

Zelorxon4/13/2017, 10:45:21 AM1 votes

League players don't understand how graves works and that they have to push after lv7 and that the jungler isn't there to win their lane and you expect them to understand how an IP works?

FUCKING HELL, EVEN I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW AN IP WORKS jk i just didn't paid much attention in class, if i study like a good boy i know how an IP works

Btw, most of them are at best high schoolers, i know i can't rely on them to use blood boil before it expires, i wouldn't ask them to learn about IPs... (Also this brings back memories...)

Starcraft243ver4/13/2017, 10:59:55 AM1 votes

That's really really unacurate and simplified but the conclusion is true.

Lil Lewd Witch4/13/2017, 1:57:42 PM1 votes

Your Router gets the Public IP(The one Riot can see), and the Router gives you Computer its own IP. Riot can't/won't see what IP your Computer is pulling from the router, only the public one your ISP is giving your Router.

Now depending on the ISP, an IP ban definitely wouldn't work because most use Dynamic IPs so if your connection drops/reconnects, odds are you will be assigned a new Public IP unless you have special arrangements for a Static IP that is yours and yours alone. The average user does not have that, though.

Even if they did go so far as to see what device used what IP inside the home, you can manually change the IP your device uses and even mask the MAC Address to prevent device bans.

There's always a way around.

Now this is just me going off all the information we use at my ISP that I work for where dealing with people's IPs is a pretty common occurrence for me.

Hyperiön4/13/2017, 2:24:46 PM1 votes

I can tell you are an extreme novice programmer here.

Your Ipv4 changes most of time you reset your PC/router. However, you have the same IP address provided by your ISP as long as you have your service.

For example, if you go into "cmd", type in ipconfig. Your IPv4 address changes, most of the time, you will see it 192.168.1.1-256.

But if you go to whatismyip or ipchicken, you will see that that number is always the game.

FurriesAreHot4/13/2017, 7:06:20 PM1 votes

Actually, your IP is the number bound to your modem/router that changes when it powers down