Some confusion about IPs and DP accounts.

Hope some mod will clear me this doubt.

I am staying in an university hostel and we are taking one broadband internet connection (one telephone line) among 8 people (i.e 8 rooms with a computer each). All the computer have different local IPs. But when I check the IPs in all the computers using whatismyip.com, it showed the same IP.

I just want to know if there will be any issue of multiple account if one of friend signs up from these computers.

Infact they want to sign up. But if they sign up, I will always make sure that they never post in my thread or vice versa.
Hoping that some mod will clear my confusion.

Thanks,
bnts

 

all your systems are in lan , with same public ip so u cant use more then 1 account.

 

I just want to know if there is any possibility for my friends becoming a member of DP. Because I cannot ask them not to sign up as they will mind if I do that...

 

Thanks Shawn for the reply. I was actually waiting eagerly for a reply from some mod or you...Hope there will never an issue of multiple accounts...

Thanks again

 

wow this is really good i too have few friends but for all of us only 1 guy is internet provider so in admin panel all accounts will show same IP and as friends all my post in single thread so i was afraid.This will really help us, in india most of us use shared cable internet in huge lan.I still have small doubt how to know accounts are from same person or from same IP, will u check MAC address ?.

 

why is there any need for all the friends to post in the single thread?

If the different accounts are not related to each other then i guess they are allowed, relation means promoting each other, promoting each others services, giving false feeback, thats the reason multiple accounts are not allowed.

 

I don't think there will ever be a need for friends staying together to post in each other threads...that's simply meaningless lol...what they can discuss in the forum, they can discuss better sitting together... neither will they ever require to buy anything from each other online...will they?

 

i dont have any service thread and also not planning for any in fucture,if 7 or 8 members having same IP some times it may happen , so i asked will MAC address or any anything else is also noted.This days internet providers are using very big network , all systems will be in lan so there is chance other guy whome we dont know is already member, so we r confused.

 

it's not possible/practical in 99% of cases to track down the MAC address of a user.

MAC addresses are more for LANs than over the net.