...Let The Fun Begin - Re: Banned States & MG

[winbig]

thanks win for looking up my ip addy im now a resident of st. louis, mo and nash is in new jersey lol, we only live 30 minutes away from each other, so how can this be, im still lost on this ip stuff?................pewter dummy , laurie

Ok, let's say Verizon owns a block of IP's that are given to people all over the country. ARIN is in charge of documenting all of this information.

MG pulls up that information when it sees your IP address.

Then they compare physical address the company used (the information that ARIN has) to register the IP addresses, and goes by that. 9 times out of 10, that registered physical address isn't going to be in the same state that you live in.

I kinda think that Kentucky knew this going in (or at least had a consultant tell them this,) and it makes a great case for them to go into court and say "hey, Kentuckians can still access these sites. These companies have to forfeit their domains."

[anniemac]

Just for grins and giggles, I ran my IP. There is something to be said for living in the country. I have DSL through my local phone provider. It has Texas plastered all over it.

But the knowledge about the mobile modems was good to know. I have used my mobile phone with wireless modem on my laptop. Don't guess that will be an option any more.

[GGW Laurie]

i have my internet through charter cable, arn't they out of louisville, kentucky.........laurie

[zebedy]

An easy way to see if you're affected by this or not is to head over to:

www.whatismyip.com, grab the IP address it says you have, then visit www.arin.net with that IP and paste it into the box in the upper right corner and click 'search whois.'

hmm i just tried that and it says im in amsterdam , i know the uk is part of the EU but as im not seeing hash cafes and ladies in there underware all over the place, i think it may be wrong

[Mousey]

Hmmmm... did the Whois thingy and even though I live in Alabama, the IP came up as Wisconsin my ISP's 'home'.

[winbig]

Hmmmm... did the Whois thingy and even though I live in Alabama, the IP came up as Wisconsin my ISP's 'home'.

UPDATE:

Villento LOCKED ME OUT OF MY ACCOUNT. They sent me a bonus offer YESTERDAY, but yet I'm locked out today? I can't even get to the login screen of the casino anymore. As soon as it loads, it closes automatically.



ok. I'm talking with them in live chat, and they didn't block my account, but I can't even get to the login screen. It's like it sees my IP and shuts down.

[Pinababy69]

What a complete and total clusterf**k. I can't see how MG is going to make this work.....not the way it's intended anyway.

[RobWin]

Hmmmm... did the Whois thingy and even though I live in Alabama, the IP came up as Wisconsin my ISP's 'home'.

It sounds like you have TDS too like I posted about earlier...

[RobWin]

UPDATE:

Villento LOCKED ME OUT OF MY ACCOUNT. They sent me a bonus offer YESTERDAY, but yet I'm locked out today? I can't even get to the login screen of the casino anymore. As soon as it loads, it closes automatically.



ok. I'm talking with them in live chat, and they didn't block my account, but I can't even get to the login screen. It's like it sees my IP and shuts down.

Try that proxy IP I gave you in a previous post here and see if it will let you...it should considering it's out of Cali

[GGW Laurie]

UPDATE:

Villento LOCKED ME OUT OF MY ACCOUNT. They sent me a bonus offer YESTERDAY, but yet I'm locked out today? I can't even get to the login screen of the casino anymore. As soon as it loads, it closes automatically.



ok. I'm talking with them in live chat, and they didn't block my account, but I can't even get to the login screen. It's like it sees my IP and shuts down.

this just really sucks winbig, isnt there something the casino's can do, if i live in tn. and have a ip addy from one of the excluded states, then i would be booted too? it seems like some one would be all over this as almost all of us have ip addys in different parts of the country, this isnt right at allalot of casino's stand to lose alot of players and money, you think they would be getting concerned over this imo.............