# If your IP number has been banned **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 6, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396 "2011-02-06T14:39:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![hyperspaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hyperspaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperspaz)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/139 "2015-02-19T17:30:04Z")
Admins can you please check my messages for an explanation of what is going on. I tried to fix it but I think I blew it. Please let me know what I need to do. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/140 "2015-02-19T20:46:29Z")
> [@hyperspaz](#): > > Admins can you please check my messages for an explanation of what is going on. I tried to fix it but I think I blew it. Please let me know what I need to do. Thanks I reported your post so the relevant moderators will see it and help you out. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/142 "2015-08-28T04:00:34Z")
What would be the proper protocol now for addressing IP bans? I find when I try to get on this board via my phone’s data plan, it intermittently has me blocked due to an IP ban, but only when I’m in Phoenix. It’s fine when I’m accessing the board from other locations with other IP addresses like home or even when I’m using the data plan in other locations (hence I can post this message). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/145 "2015-11-02T08:51:36Z")
Oh the irony. Reported ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/147 "2015-12-29T04:48:19Z")
The first time I tried to log in from my new home in the Philippines I got the “your IP number has been banned” message. That went on for 15 days, until I got a new IP. In the meantime I tried emailing the administrator twice and got no response. Someone deserves a stern lecture. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/148 "2015-12-29T04:50:59Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > The first time I tried to log in from my new home in the Philippines I got the “your IP number has been banned” message. That went on for 15 days, until I got a new IP. In the meantime I tried emailing the administrator twice and got no response. Someone deserves a stern lecture. They were confused. They thought there was two of you. ---
**Author:** ![yupstrips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9e8a1a/32.png) [@yupstrips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yupstrips)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/151 "2016-03-26T06:53:39Z")
tell me!How to Change IP Address if You Get Banned:confused:😕 ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/152 "2016-03-26T08:05:49Z")
Discussions about IP hiding and ban evasion are not permitted here. If you are a legitimate user of the SDMB and your IP has been banned, send me an e-mail (contact info on profile) and we’ll get you straightened out. ---
**Author:** ![Marci\_Al\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Marci\_Al\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marci_Al_1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/154 "2017-07-18T03:29:32Z")
This is the second time I got banned this year. I think it’s me and not my IP. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/155 "2017-07-18T03:48:59Z")
Are we to understand you’ve been banned, and returned under a different name? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/156 "2017-07-18T05:07:20Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Are we to understand you’ve been banned, and returned under a different name? No, same name, with the addition of an underscore. Also, reported. Not you, the returnee. ---
**Author:** ![Marci\_Al\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Marci\_Al\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marci_Al_1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/157 "2017-07-18T05:24:55Z")
Report for what??? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/158 "2017-07-18T05:51:34Z")
A moderator to help you out. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/159 "2017-07-18T06:01:45Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > A moderator to help you out. … to the egress. ---
**Author:** ![Marci\_Al\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Marci\_Al\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marci_Al_1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/160 "2017-07-18T06:19:54Z")
Well I hope so. Because during the first banning I emailed the admins. Other than welcoming me to the “teeming millions” and promising to look into my case, nothing happened. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/161 "2017-07-18T06:54:37Z")
> [@Marci\_Al](#): > > Well I hope so. Because during the first banning I emailed the admins. Other than welcoming me to the “teeming millions” and promising to look into my case, nothing happened. Members are only allowed to have one account per person. Having another account is grounds for immediate banning. This is most likely to happen again. If your previous account has “BANNED” under the username, it was not an accident. ---
**Author:** ![Marci\_Al\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Marci\_Al\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marci_Al_1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/162 "2017-07-18T06:57:28Z")
I thought as much. The “no reason given” grates on you though. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/163 "2017-12-24T08:36:37Z")
> [@yupstrips](#): > > tell me!How to Change IP Address if You Get Banned:confused:😕 It depends on how you are connected to your ISP. Googling your question will give you some strategies, but not can be depended upon to work. I have a broadband connection through a hot spot, provided by the Philippine Globe Telecom. I turned off my hotspot before I went to bed, and when I turned it on in the morning, it had reset and I had a new IP, unbanned. But IP bans are often range bans, covering a whole set of IPs, and my new IP could have been in the same range, still banned, but at it turned out, it wasn’t and I could get back onto SD. When I got my new IP, only the last two sets of numbers were different. The first two the same. But when I was hooked up in the USA through my cable company modem, turning off the modem to reset it didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/164 "2017-12-24T10:39:33Z")
If you are having issues like this, instead of constantly playing games with your internet provider to try to get a new IP, a much better solution is to contact us. It’s easy to see why your IP was banned. We typically ban IP ranges due to spam, and we get a lot of spam from the Philippines. Before banning an IP range, we check to see if we have any legitimate users in that range. However, a legitimate user can later end up in that range, and we don’t want to IP ban legitimate users. If you contact us, we will usually lift the ban range and just deal with the spammers as they come. Then, the next time your ISP gives you a new IP in that range, you won’t have an issue. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/165 "2017-12-24T13:54:33Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > If you are having issues like this, instead of constantly playing games with your internet provider to try to get a new IP, a much better solution is to contact us. > . I did. Five messages in five days before I got a request for my IP number, and then not even an acknowledgement in the next five days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396.md?page=8)