Hello.
I've run into quite the problem. To give you some background, I am an active gamer. I play a specific game and it has made be what I am today. Unfortunately, this game community has some very evil people in it. I'm going to make a long story short and make this simple.
I can't them detect my homes real IP when playing
Of course, I've used VPN's. The problem is though these VPN's seem to be hiccupping, and they can see my IP still. I'm guessing that the VPN is turning off for even a millisecond when browsing their community forums and it is auto detected by their system.
I've tried 2 different VPN's, and after a few months a hiccup seems to happen in these VPN systems when using them and they detect the IP address.
I can't let them do that again.
Now, I have done some research in proxy servers and that might be a way to do this, but I have never set one up. Wondering if that could be a way?
Or is there something else I can do?
I have lots of money, so I can spend money on equipment if needed.
Solutions I've tried but do not work:
What about a cloud pc?
So I'd just be controlling a PC remotely but that PC is far away from me. Is that a thing for gaming systems? Like renting one?
Or perhaps having a virtual machine on my PC, and configure it to only route traffic through a VPN
Is a proxy a better option?
If you want to mask or change your IP totally without using a VPN there are a few options but each has trade-offs. One solid route is using a rotating residential proxy. These use real home ISP IPs and rotate through them, which makes them much less likely to be flagged compared to typical datacenter proxies.
With a rotating residential proxy you can switch IPs every request or session so it becomes harder for sites to track or throttle you just based on an IP. Just watch out though for performance depending on distance and latency.
If you want I can help you pick a provider or show how to configure one so the IP changes happen behind the scenes without messing with your apps or browser setup.