Computer Identification

[DCopper04]

Does anyone know how online poker sites identify your computer? I'm sure they record your IP address, but what other information do they gather?

The reason I ask is because I have three computers in my home. On my main computer, I was recently blocked from accessing PartyPoker (I think it might be because I logged in on Party and Empire at the same time, stupid me.) Although I am unable to login from that computer, I am still able to login from the other two computers in my home. I have wireless internet; all three computers are hooked up to the same wireless router, and thus, all three computers have the same IP address. Since the other two computers are still able to access Party, that means the server must be blocking something other than my IP address. What could it be?

[TajaUk]

Might be some form of cookie on that computer. Register file or similar thing. Try ad-aware and remove anything is collects.

[Aequitas58]

I'm pretty sure it's IP address.

This would explain the wireless networking situation. When you set up a router, you basically get a "master" IP address. The leeching computers get different IPs w/ numbers off by 1. It'll look something like xxx.xxx.xx.2 or xxx.xxx.xx.3, etc.

I wouldn't how how to fix the situation, so, g'luck.

[badblood44]

It could also be something in the windows registry. Not sure exactly what however.

[2Tone]

And was one of the reasons I was considering nuking my machine and starting clean (see prior thread). I'd also add a word of caution that anyone less than an expert user should be careful about screwing around with their windows registry, as deleting/modifying the wrong thing can cripple your computer.

[hackers238]

Routers can be tricky though, because not all are the same. The most common home router, (Linksys 4 port), really only has 1 IP address, and then makes a whole subsystem of IPs once that you get into the network. From this system, All computers are treated as the same computer once they are logged on...

But depending on how you set it up, you can have multiple external IP addresses in the same network, which is almost always used for large businesses, as well as sometimes for home networks. In this system you can have seperate IPs and therefor seperate entities on the PP and Empire database.

And I think that one of the only methods they use to track you is IP and cookies.

[DCopper04]

Thanks for all your suggestions, but they haven't helped yet. I cleared my cookies and that didn't do anything. I even downloaded one of those programs that scrambles your IP address and that didn't work either (although I have no idea how those things work.) There must be something other than cookies and IP address that they use to track computers.

I was talking to someone about this problem, he said there is something called a CAM address that they could possibly track. He didn't know exactly what he was talking about, but he said the CAM address has something to do with your Internet card or something, and that it is unique to each computer. Does anyone know anything about CAM addresses? Thanks by the way for all your help, even if it doesn't solve the problem.