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damn. could you use a mac address spoofer?
In this day and age everyone should be using a MAC address spoofer, especially on Public Wifi, many of them track mac addresses and impose limits based on time and data usage.
If you've ever been using public Wifi and noticed it got slow or stops working after a time, that's why. Some will even be up-front about it by asking you to pay for it after a time.
on windows, use tmac
on linux, there's one called macchanger...
Yeah, depends on what os you are on tho
I don’t have experience with them, so I’m not too sure how they work or how reliably they work.
Mainly I just use the one built-in to settings of Gnome, I never torrented on public wifi (most public wifi I've used is too slow to download without chewing up all the bandwith) but the MAC address randomizer seems to work very well, even with the ones that use timed paywalls (where they let you use it for a time then lock your MAC address out and ask you to pay).