Bill banned from diyaudio?

[Rick Lee]

Well, I think the poster's cool too.

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

Sounds like you have PPPoE... When I use the website you mentioned, it shows Integra Telecom and Salt Lake City. I don't own Integra, and don't live in Salt Lake City... but that IP does correlate to my unique connection on the internet, assigned statically to the MAC address of my modem.

Exactly. The ISP trace only shows the actual owner of the server that connects you to the internet. To trace in more detail further back in the chain requires a higher level of trace capacity. And that's why any forum that should decide to ban, for instance, 72.71.226.72, won't be banning just me, they'll be banning every user of that server. And the next time I log on I might end up on 72.71.226.71, so it would be for naught anyway.

[Bob G]

Individual static IP addresses are more common now-a-days.

Unless you're on IPv6, the opposite is true.