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How to Avoid DDOS When Gaming (SPONSORED) - MMORPG.com
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How to Avoid DDOS When Gaming (SPONSORED) - MMORPG.com
Have you ever been in the middle of an online gaming session, when all of a sudden, your connection dropped? Of course, this usually tends to happen at the worst time ever, such as right in the middle of an extremely intense one on one battle, and then out of nowhere, your ping spikes and it’s game over.
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DDOS attacks against MMOs are normally targeted against game servers. Because you aren't running a game server while you play an MMO, you don't need to take any DDOS protection.
Keeping your computer and home network secure are always good things, but this article is just stupid.
Your you know .. is just your ISP.
As you said, in order for an attacker to start a DDoS attack, one needs to know the "victim" IP address. Andso, is extremely hard to find someone's IP address unless the "attacker" knows the "victim" and is trying to make a direct connection in order to find the IP address.
So, if one finds himself DDoS'ed ( very unlikely ), changes are that it's a random attack and not targeted specifically to the gamer itself.
This article is very misleading. VPN offers , as your article from PcGamers says ( which btw, has nothing to do with 'protecting the gamer from DDoS' ) privacy over the internet. Gaming through VPN should be OK only if you are playing a game which is .. on the other side of the world so to speak.
Anyway , I do not recommend buying a VPN just because of .."DDoS". I don't know who greenlighted this paid article , but .. no matter how much $ the guy paid mmorpg.com , I would of never allowed it here. It has nothing to do with Games!
i mean.. im not a old-blown veteran but i have been working as paid IT guy for 40 hours a week for the last few years and i can say that there is not a single reason or use for any group to ddos a freaking client. It will only cost them resources, money and time .. and then what.. they stopped a few players from being able to game. And i might need to add that they will actually need specific network information about each individual.
Just to conclude.. chance of you getting DDOSd on your PC itself is multiple times smaller than the chance of getting hit by lightning, 3 times, while in a studio with rubber floor, walls and ceiling. Stupidest article ive seen in a while. They must have been paying a good amount.
https://ashesofcreation.com/r/Y4U3PQCASUPJ5SED
Obviously a normal user isn't going to have this happen, as they would need to be targeted, and that's extremely unlikely.
I agree that they need to make money. But spreading bad information isn't the right way and is giving them a bad reputation.
Yeah the Anklebiters are the kids who use mommy's computer to play Fortnite, launch DDOS attacks, or make threats easy to get tracked by Law Enforcement.
The more high profile cases such as Identity Theft, Advanced DDOS attacks, Turning computers into Zombies and launching attacks remotely, honestly it's all pretty easy to do especially theft of identity these days becuase high profile places some I know of irl don't even take the time to secure their networks properly.
If you own a site or server > Use Cloudflare very easy to use.
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If I ever get hit by an attack I just call my ISP and ask them for a new IP address, or run down and swap out my modem but it really doesn't happen anyways.
Also people who use RF-ID cards for their security, or thumb scanners do know these are vulnerable to hackers, easy to clone an RF-ID Card, especially if it's used at a major facility such as hospitals, or loan companies where people take in secure information, and when those doctors walk out of the room leaving their "dell computers" with open USB / RJ-4 ports, as well as giving access to RF-ID clones hmmm, ever wonder how big data breaches happen?
Pro-Tip if your going to use RF-ID technology make sure theres also a pin code, or password too.
What's even more interesting is using a persons own wi-fi password to send out the data without ever stepping foot on their property a second time, make sure your routers names are covered / hidden too and your default passwords are changed (Im totally serious here i've seen it, and gotten into trouble for reporting it to management before.)
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
It's really that simple. A game is quite capable to detect if it's being sent a bunch of random packets from a large number of IP addresses and automatically deal with it. The fact it isn't is just a lack of resources committed to net coding.
With VPN there is also a high change that you will have higher latency in games.
That makes no sense. The way some types of DDOS works, means you can't protect from it by ' coding your game better'.
You also don't want the game server having to deal with it. Big online games , don't run just simple dedicated servers that handle everything.
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Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
The stop coming here.
If you want a new idea, go read an old book.
In order to be insulted, I must first value your opinion.
Other sites don't do this,they also have to pay bills and eat,so there is no excuse for operating a site on subpar standards.
I garner a bet people come here to find out stuff from OTHER people and not always this sites constant advertising.
Besides that SOMETIMES this site has some good articles,that doesn't mean you totally write off a site when they show bad decision making.Matter of fact this analogy is worse than ridiculous,imagine if all married couples just left after they disagreed on something,there would be no marriages left.
But hey that is a BRILLIANT well thought out response..pffft,is this Twitch chat or something?
BTW ,for the record i would give Fallout 76 a 3/10.meaning not worth buying or playing.
As for DDOS advertisements,0.1/10 on the gamers need to know basis.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.