Anyone got banned for using lowerping?

[plofstof12]

I checked out lowerping today for the first time, and even though I'm using an unshaped connection I find that lowerping shaves off about 80-100ms off my latency.

It now fluctuates consistently between 220 and 270ms which is great.
(using unshaped webafrica verizon, the normal registry hacks, disabled vista autotuning, and now added lowerping into the mix).

But then I noticed threads such as this and also this

It appears that technically speaking tunnelling services is against the Blizzard ToU (or is it, no one can really figure out). Apparently some people have been banned for using lowerping or similar services. Some of them were able to convince Blizzard that their lowerping usage was authentic, and got unbanned.

Any of you had any such problems from Blizz when using lowerping?

 

[guest2013-1]

Well you have to consider that using a tunneling/ssh service and sharing it with many users is kind of a bitch if you consider that Blizzard will see 1 IP address. (Or more, depending on how they're setup)

So 1 bad apple can (and will) spoil it for the rest. So be careful with that.

I used to get 200-270ms pings (I'm in Dubai) but for some reason I'm getting 600ms+ which kinds of sucks a LOT.

 

[Skurm]

I use something similiar called your-freedom. No problems yet. But yeah, it is a risk you take. Just don't jump between diff tunnel endpoint servers though and it should be fine. Blizz seems to track which IP's your account is logging in from and if it changes too often your account get's flagged as potentially compromised/hacked.

 

[werries2]

I use something similiar called your-freedom. No problems yet. But yeah, it is a risk you take. Just don't jump between diff tunnel endpoint servers though and it should be fine. Blizz seems to track which IP's your account is logging in from and if it changes too often your account get's flagged as potentially compromised/hacked.

A lot of flagged accounts out there with dynamic IP addresses

 

[Barfish88]

Its not that you get banned for using the service. Alot of account hackers make use of lowerping etc, and when they get banned so do you because the addresses are the same.

 

[TofuMofu]

I used a similar service (www.it24.co.za) and I wasn't banned. Only reason I stopped was because they were having issues and a DC means I need to connect ADSL agin and then the tunnel -.- Was getting annoying in bad raids

 

[Pleochism]

3 or 4 weeks ago, everyone in my guild that was using Lowerping got suspended for 72 hours, and had a Final Warning placed on their account. After investigation, they determined that Lowerping is illegal on the EU servers, but permitted on the US ones, for unknown reasons. /shrug

So I'd avoid Lowerping if you're on EU and like your account.