Did you ever turn off your router for more than 24 hours?
If so, the IP may change automatically if you use another IP accidently.
The owner doesn't seem to have given a response to this yet also? I'd suppose they stop any negative reputation at all costs!
No, my modem is running 24/7, but the modem is from the isp and you can only control it (port forwarding etc.) using their site. They assign you almost-static ip-addresses, because even if my modem restarts, I get the same ip-address, but every 3-5 months they will force the modem to obtain a new ip-address and everybody gets a new one, but that normally can't be a problem...
And no, he has not responded yet, and he obviously doesn't care about his clients...
Even if this was the case, Most of us don't have static IP addresses so a minor change in the IP address should not be counted as cheating.
Yeah that's true. That's like if you are on vacation and you use the hotels Wi-Fi-network, then you have another external ip-address and if that counted as cheating, then no one would use the site when they are on vacation and that means less ad-income for the admin.
If you keep a modem on all the time then the IP is automatically static.
I was pointing this out as a way of having an IP address that uncontrollably changes as the lookup protocol when turning on a modem cannot give the same IP every time (in most cases it does).
There are many people, however, who do leave modems running all the time so their IP won't change while the router is online!
And as I stated above, that's not true in my case, because the isp will force a ip-address change every 3-5 months...
\This is not correct. Your ip address is beyond your control and can be released / renewed by your internet company for any number of reasons. Unless you pay for a static ip from them, they can change it at will. I spent 10 years working at an isp and can verify that not only from that experience but also with my current provider... they change my ip once a month or every other month or so.
Yes that's true!