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Originally Posted by fuckyou/payme
Strongbox purposely allows two or three IPs per user as some users login from different locations, like their computer, as well as their tablet or smart-phone. You can easily change it to only allow one IP.
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I used strongbox for about 3 months and found it very dissapointing for various reasons. It makes sense to allow users to download from different locations, but not at the same time, right? Well that's what Strongbox does, we tested it, I contacted them about it and at that time (2 years ago) it couldn't be changed. Then on the other hand it kept blocking users who weren't doing anything wrong.
I can tell you from the script we made and the admin form it shows us that 95% of your members download from one location through one connection only. Our script also looks at some other things like what browser and operating system is being used so if they log in from a second connection you will see a new record that shows you the ip address, hosting provider, country, os, browser. The second connection is blocked by default and you can unblock it manually but we are now adding member trust levels, like for example download from two locations but within same country only. This is what about 4% of your members do, downloading from home and from work, and then you have the 1% who travel internationally and download from laptop from various countries.
With all the above, additional connections are being blocked by default, the first connection will remain open, but we added a function then when there is a download through a proxy server of from problematic countries (Russia and other countries that you can specify yourself) the account is blocked completely so the first used connection is being blocked as well. Then you can first review the account and decide whether you want to activate it again. We made all this part of our terms of service.