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@Cramps said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2650469#Comment_2650469
You can set up a VPN on your router. Windscribe, for example, allows this. I've also found an interesting workaround for those unable to access router settings / don't feel comfortable doing so by using your PC as a Wifi hotspot, connecting your PC to a VPN, then connecting your Xbox to the hotspot on your PC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/j8bark/xbox_one_vpn_using_windscribe/
There's also a free, open source app available on Android called "VPN Hotspot"made by "MyGod Studio", which you could also use, but this does require that your phone be rooted.
For those who have the option of using an Ethernet cable between console and PC, this method seems a little more straight forward:
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@Ussu said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2631486#Comment_2631486
Is it possible to use VPN on a console?
You can set up a VPN on your router. Windscribe, for example, allows this. I've also found an interesting workaround for those unable to access router settings / don't feel comfortable doing so by using your PC as a Wifi hotspot, connecting your PC to a VPN, then connecting your Xbox to the hotspot on your PC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/j8bark/xbox_one_vpn_using_windscribe/
There's also a free, open source app available on Android called "VPN Hotspot"made by "MyGod Studio", which you could also use, but this does require that your phone be rooted.
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@GoshJosh said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2649804#Comment_2649804
How much playtime does 15 GB with split tunneling translate to? Probably won’t last me the full month, haha.
Can't really say that I've monitored my usage and it'd really depend on how many hours you play per month. A quick Google search led met to a post by a person who played for 49 hours and used 1.64GB. Another post elsewhere mentioned 30mb in an hour and 30*49=1470 (1.4GB), so it does seem to use around 30-50mb per hour. At 50mb per hour that would give you roughly 300 hours of playtime with a 15GB limit.
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@throwaway79465468797 said:
You cant get personal info just from attacking a network. That's what social media and Twitch are for. Be careful what personal info you give to complete strangers on the internet.
I've seen people talk about this a lot in the last few weeks, as a result of certain trans streamers being doxxed and "swatted", though I hadn't really paid much attention until yesterday.
It's worth mentioning that "Elix" at least, has their personal information all over the internet. I'd never heard of them until yesterday, but, It took me about 10 minutes to find their real name, D.O.B, address, employment history, education history, family connections, credentials/qualifications etc,. (everything essentially) just to make a point to someone else that whoever "swatted" this person, did not get their personal information by DDo'S'ing via DBD, which is what a lot of people seem to think has happened.
I was genuinely surprised at how many people think that you can locate someone's physical address using their IP address alone and are advising others to use a VPN as a result, when really, it's not necessary at all. It's actually what prompted me to create an account and post here.
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@GoshJosh said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2649248#Comment_2649248
You’d have to give me a step by step then, because I was only trying it on the live version with the quick connect feature. It would temporarily shut off my Internet entirely once I found a lobby.
You know, you're absolutely right. I, apparently have a subscription with ProtonVPN, so I have the paid version (news to me). I just tested via an alternative "free" account and it wouldn't let me connect. Apparently, BHVR's coding is so bad that it still registers DBD's servers as peer to peer, as opposed to dedicated servers.
Windscribe is probably the only other free VPN I can think to recommend. It has a monthly limit of 10GB (used to be 20). If you receive a referral code you can gain a whopping additional 1GB a month (happy to send you one). If you "Tweet" something from Windscribe, your limit goes up an additional 5GBper month (you can find this in the account settings of your Windscribe account). That's at least 15GB. If you enable split tunneling and only direct traffic for DBD through windscribe and have everything else (browsers etc,) not directed through your VPN, then that 15GB will go much further.
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@Pulsar said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2649295#Comment_2649295
Very few make them publicly available for the expressed and singular purpose of booting people offline.
True. Although, most companies which obtain/harvest your information and then sell/give it away do so privately and don't care what purpose whoever they're selling it to wants it for. They just offer it to the highest bidder - unfortunately though, that can often be hacking "groups", who regularly pay extortionate amounts of money for it.
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@Pulsar said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2631632#Comment_2631632
Most of them own specialized services designed to hit through VPN's, I'm not familiar with how.
I do have a friend who was in that scene for a long time, so I could ask him if you're really curious.
It's practically impossible to DDoS a decent VPN to the point that it actually affects their servers. It is impossible to "DDoS through a VPN". If the VPN sucks / is provided by an unreliable company, then you could potentially DDoS the IP of the VPN itself to the point that it gets taken offline, which would then reveal your real IP (a killswitch would prevent this), but, this wouldn't really work on any of the "larger" VPN providers as they have preventative measures specifically for this kind of thing.
There is no "specialised service" which can hit "through" a VPN.
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@Pulsar said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2631518#Comment_2631518
Unfortunately not.
There are also "legal" sites that log your IP if you play on Xbox or PS. They hold it for the expressed purpose of allowing people to DDoS you, but don't worry! You can stop them for just a small fee, you can block this from happening!
Totally not extortion or anything...
Virtually every site you visit logs your IP address, regardless of whether you're using a PC, a phone, tablet, console or anything else.
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@GoodBoyKaru said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2632978#Comment_2632978
ExpressVPN, Surfshark, and NordVPN are three different free trials you could try, and Surfshark (at least for me) works for DBD. This covers you for about 30 days, which should be long enough for BHVR to have fixed the issue. CyberGhost is also quite good with a 45 day trial, but the only one I can really comment on in Surfshark because it's the one I use.
TunnelBear and Hotspot Shield are two free ones asides from Proton with pretty good ratings, but again I can't comment on usefulness.
I'm sorry for not being much help; I hope someone else can point you in the direction of one that works.
I would recommend against using at least four of those VPN's.
NordVPN was recently hacked - If you don't trust DBD/BHVR in regards to IP leaking then it's probably not smart to use a VPN which was compromised and potentially allowed the interception of internet traffic going through their servers.
ExpressVPN was recently bought by an Israeli cybersecurity company (Kape). One of the executives "Daniel Gericke" used to be a"mercenary hacker" for the United Arab Emirates, where he and others would hack American machines for UAE government. I just don't think this company is trustworthy at all.
Surfshark, admittedly, I haven't looked into this one too much as I have a few niggling issues that probably wouldn't bother most people (trackers in apps, crash logs), but, there are simply better options which are free.
Hotspot Shield and TunnelBear just shouldn't be used by anyone. Neither of them are trustworthy at all.
From a privacy standpoint, I wouldn't use anything other than ProtonVPN, Mullvad, IVPN and perhaps Windscribe (unless you're overly paranoid about it being a Canadian company).
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@GoodBoyKaru said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2633024#Comment_2633024
Doxxing- they can trace your address and other information from your IP address alone. It doesn't hack into your computer, but your router.
Swatting- you can still have police called who will arrive potentially with weapons. Definitely the case here in the UK, anyway.
You cannot trace a physical address from someone's IP address alone. An IP address will give an approximate location, but it isn't nearly precise enough for someone to know what house you live in, in order to send police on a false call. You can maybe pinpoint what city someone is in, but, that's about it.
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@GoshJosh said:
Could someone please provide viable free options? I tried one called Proton VPN, it ends up breaking my Internet connection (like a Twitch stream stops, can't load web pages either, etc.) when I'm about to join a lobby in DbD. Saying something about no P2P traffic is permitted on this server.
Bit late to the party. Proton blocks P2P traffic when using the free version, so it will block DBD if playing PTB as PTB doesn't use dedicated servers, I believe. But, Proton will work when playing the "live" version of DBD - I use it.
Windscribe is free, but, I think that comes with a 20gb monthly bandwidth limit (that should be plenty enough for gaming though).
That said, you really do not need to worry if some stranger online knows your IP address, it isn't supposed to be "private". Every owner of every website you visit can see your IP address and millions upon millions of webites are run by random people who don't care about / take privacy very seriously at all. It's trivially easy to get someone's IP address.