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Re: Possible solution to losing items to account hackers

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From: Steve Kaye
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:26
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On 28/03/2011 19:51, John Gordon wrote:
> In<imqkc9$21u$1...@dont-email.me>  "Shammy"<no...@nothing.com>  writes:
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>
>> In my country internet providers reset the internet connection every 24h of
>> being logged to change IP address and it's been like this for 16 years or
>> more since internet is available so every day I would log in everything
>> would be locked? :O
>
> I don't know exactly how it works.  They may not require you to have
> exactly the same address as last time; perhaps they just require the
> address to be in the same subnet or domain.

The blurb says something like "significantly different location".

However, it seems that some people are having problems with it coin 
locking them every time.

It seems to lock every new character plus it seems to have a higher 
chance of locking old characters after you switch servers after creating 
a new character.

I recently went and created 4 characters for each faction (one of each 
calling) on two different servers and was coin locked a lot then.  Since 
then, I haven't been coin locked once.

steve.kaye
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From: Steve Kaye <nos...@giddy-kippers.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.games.warcraft
Subject: Re: Possible solution to losing items to account hackers
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:26:02 +0100
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