If they do it to you, they will do it to someone else and no one wants to deal with that when they are supposed to be on the game having fun. Lastly, you want to report whoever is doing this. If you’re already getting DDOS’ed you can try resetting your IP address by unplugging your router for an extended period or you contact your Internet Service Provider to have it changed. If you want to hide your IP address, you can use a VPN or proxy server, which will hide your IP address and still allow you to access everything online. Keep your online parties for people that you or your friends know, adding people to your party makes it easier for them to grab your IP address. If it goes beyond a DDOS attack and they are harassing you, stole money from your account or made threats against you, then you can go avoid and get the local police involved. This is the Internet Crime Complaint FBI website and they can help track down people that are doing this and get them handled. Also, you can report them to the IC3.gov website.

For example, if it’s a ps4, contact PlayStation support and give them that person’s user ID. Firstly, you and your friends should report them to owner of the console that you’re playing on. As someone that plays video games, this is extremely annoying, and they should be taken off the game for doing that to someone. If you know who is booting you off the game, you and your friends need to report them. You can also contact your Internet Service Provider and have them assign you a new IP address, which would have the same affect. In some situations this will result in you getting assigned a new IP address and now that DDOS won’t be targeting your console anymore. If it’s been going on for a while and you’re confident that it’s not standard internet problems, your best bet is to unplug your router and wait a few hours or a few days, you can try unplugging it as you sleep and try it again in the morning. If someone already has your IP address, the previous steps won’t be able to help you.

That way if someone tries to get your IP address, they will get the IP address of the proxy server, not your IP address. Using a VPN or Proxy server, is a good way to prevent people from obtaining your IP address by making your console go through another server before connecting to anything on the internet. For example there are several websites that allow you to enter a gaming ID and get that user’s IP address. Unfortunately it’s possible for people to get your IP address even if they don’t join your party. Most consoles make it easy to make your parties private and if someone does join your public party, don’t feel bad for kicking them out. I know some people personally who have said they got hacked shortly after being in a party with someone they didn’t know, one person was bold enough to join a party I was in a few days later, on that guy’s account and threaten to do the same thing to us. It only takes a few minutes of someone being in your party for them to get your IP address and once they have that they can start attacking your console. Whatever gaming console you use, if you make a party chat to play with yours boys, make it private and invite the people you want to the party. But it can happen to almost anyone and this article highlights some of things you can do to stop it and who you can report these people to so that they can’t go on doing this to other people. Some people do this just to be an annoyance to other people, especially streamers who have a lot of followers. It can get to the point where it damages the gaming system itself and you won’t be able to use it anymore. The traffic can overload the machine, causing you to lag and eventually disconnect. It is usually done through at technique called Distributed denial of service ( DDOS), which is where someone sends traffic to your machine via your IP address. Getting “booted” is a common term for someone kicking you off an online game by attacking your internet connection.

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