Not quite that straightforward solution. A VPN can circumvent the ban completely since it changes your public IP on-demand. Pretty sure 1 ISP's 4g cellular data connection I had a while back did the same thing every time I rebooted the router that had the connection's SIM card. Also would be a problem in countries where net cafe culture's more prominant compared to personal gaming platforms. 1 guy gets the cafe banned and it's that for all users. Overall cheating's a pervasive issue that doesn't possibly have 1 clear solution, but just needs multiple of them layered together to make the cheating hard + costly enough that folks can't be bothered doing it more than once. Report based ban system, active anti-cheat, account bans, IP bans, hardware bans, limit free to play account access to pvp [i]in some capacity[/i] [u]so the bans actually mean something[/u]. With proper consideration. These tools are not mutually exclusive and all could be required to tone the cheating down to bearable levels, since D2 right now is at the core a F2P game with unlimited access to burner accounts which makes cheating very accessible and no-risk.