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I am not the most active on the site but this morning I get a screen telling me Error 1005, acess denied, when looking that up says my IP was banned, what the hell is this for, I am using express VPN and only after I turned it off was I allowed access.
Let me know what up as no idea why I was blocked or how to prevent in the future.
I use proton vpn also. I have discovered that as long as the vpn is one of the "free US" locations I can generally access this site. If I use a vpn location outside the US, say Netherlands, for example I am not able to login to the site. I get the dreaded Error Code and time out.
Last edited by Fun71; October 15th, 2022 at 08:12 AM.
Been using this VPN for over a year, had it set to Chicago, now Miami and still get the error as of today otherwise worked fine previously, not like this is going to encourage me or others who get this same error to visit, either way good forum not sure what changed in security but is what it is....
I received a pm response back from IB and forgot to post this when Joe P. started a similar thread.
Quote "the VPN issue is out of our control. Many free VPNs, i know Norton and expressVPN are definitely affected; route their traffic via AWS which we have blocked at a network level for security reasons. The answer is to disable the VPN, we are not able to support connections via a VPN because they are essentially a black box between the member and our servers".
Yeah mine started working out of the blue so not sure why one time I get the error and next time fine wondering if it is also causing pictures not to show every now and then.
October 15th, 2022, 07:29 AM
