Internet connection, IRC & MSN.

[Nightwalker]

Hi folks,

I know from experience that you can only have about 5-6 connections to IRC's QUAKENET from the same Internet connection (IP Address really)... so I think based on that we'll have to ban IRC from being used at our events. Because when lots of people logon to quakenet it will get the IP addressed banned from Quakenet, (not that I would care), and infact pherhaps it wouldnt be so bad if that happened anyway, lol.

I was wondering if anyone would like to do a little research for me. See if we can find out if it is ok to have lots of connections to the MSN Messenger network from the same IP address. I mean like 30 people logged in from 1 IP address, lol. See if anyone can digup anything.. go forth my fellow 1337 minions.

[Nightwalker]

I contacted MSN and got a reply back faster than normally expected!
My Question:

I am the organiser of a LAN Party *www.newquaylan.co.uk* we recently got a ADSL line installed to our venue. I wanted to know before we have our next event, is it alright that multiple users can login to their MSN Messenger passports from the same single IP Address. I mean would it be alright if around 30-40 people logged in to the MSN Messenger network from our single IP address, would this be an issue? I wouldnt want our IP address to get blacklisted from the MSN network or anything. Thanks for your time and help.

The Response:

Hello Ashley,


Thank you for contacting MSN Messenger Technical Support. My name is Leonor, and I am pleased to assist you with this question.


According to your email, I gather that you want to verify if there would be a problem if the multiple members of your LAN Party all log in to different passports from the same IP Address.

One or more of the following conditions may apply:

-There would be no problem if several persons log in to their Passports form the same IP address. All you need is to have access to the internet. You may want to verify if this represents an issue with your Internet Service Provider.


Thanks again for contacting MSN Messenger Technical Support, and for your use of Microsoft products. Have a wonderful day.

Best Regards,

Leonor.

Once again:

All you need is to have access to the internet.

omfg, these MSN support staff are dam 1337 lollypops.
I say @ Next LAN we try to get 30 people sign in to MSN when our ADSL router is disconnected, just check see if it works, how about it?

But that looks like gd news, all of yous will be able to use MSN

[Ryan]

If you can find out the set IP of the ADSL Connection I can get us an Quakenet trust allowing more than 5 users to connect to Quakenet.

Means IRC for all!

Cheers
Ryan

[Nightwalker]

ok I'll do that bud, I'll find out the static IP we have down there.