multiple connections from same ip

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  monicaspdtest · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 9:19 am

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  Hy everybody,
  I’m teaching CMS in a class of 20 students.
  Everyone now has a blog on wordpress.com, but we are having problems with the connection…
  Is it possible that wordpress.com block multiple connections (20 mac) from the same IP?
  Thanks in advance
  monica

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 9:54 am

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  Yes, that could, or probably is, a problem. I’ll tag this thread for staff attention and hopefully they will respond shortly with a solution.

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  monicaspdtest · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 9:57 am

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  thank you very much thesacredpath :)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 10:27 am

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  You are welcome and hopefully staff will have an easy solution for you. There are more and more users that need to be able to do what you are doing.

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  tandava108 · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 11:46 am

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  As IP addresses become scarcer and ISPs change to ISP level NAT it could affect thousands of people.

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  monicaspdtest · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 11:48 am

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  Thanks Tandava. Can you explain this in simple words? ;o)

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  tandava108 · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 12:24 pm

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  As the world runs out of IP v4 addresses (the kind most people use) the long-term solution is to switch to IPv6, which allows a lot more.

  However a short term fix is for ISPs to use NAT (network address translation) so that thousands of their customers share a single IP address on the web, the same way that you share a single address when you have several computers at home behind a router, or schools share a single address.

  This means that many people who don’t even know it will happen to share an IP address and could run into the same problem that you do – even if they only have a couple of PCs on their home network.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 2:25 pm

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  Also each IP address costs money, so the more people you cram on the same IP address through your ISP the more money your ISP saves.

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  monicaspdtest · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 2:41 pm

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  ok guys, thank u.
  So, do you think that the connections problems we had are 100% connected to wordpress.com?

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  tandava108 · Member · Jan 25, 2012 at 2:43 pm

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  I really don’t know if the problems are at wordpress.com. Only the staff can answer that.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jan 25, 2012 at 10:52 pm

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  To prevent spam signups, we do block multiple signups from the same IP.

  If you’re still having trouble, please send the IP with any other details you have to support@wordpress.com

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  monicaspdtest · Member · Jan 26, 2012 at 3:04 pm

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  thank u macmanx :o)
  i’ll send u an email with our IP address