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Originally posted by JackSpratts
they know your ip# better than you do!
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eh? it's 4 numbers and 3 dots that myself and my isp know equally well.
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Originally posted by AYB
As JS said, if it becomes popular/controversial enough that ISPs want to block/throttle the ports, surely they can just calculate which port you're running on themselves?
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they could calculate it themselves, but it would stop them just being able to block one port for all customers and instantly deal with the problem.
you think they'll bother to reprogram a port-blocking system to calculate ports using an ip-based algorithm? it'd be an expensive project when you think of the millions of customers (possibly) that such a system would have to deal with.
also, remember that the 'take 5 from each, add together, multiply by 10' was an
example. anything actually used could be far, far more complex, and proprietary if need be.