Opera User Banned?

[MartinT]

We have a member who has tried multiple times to login to our forum today only to see a message that he is banned.  He then tried Chrome which allowed him in as usual.

Is there something about the latest version of Opera that causes ProBoards to barf?

http://theaudiostandard.net

[Night]

Hi!

A possible answer is that if your member is using the VPN included in Opera, because that can sometimes switch to an IP that may be banned on the service. I've seen it mentioned before that others have had similar problems when using VPNs.

The Support Staff will be online at around 5pm GMT (9am PST).

Hopefully this explains it, if not then the Staff might have more information!

[Craig]

The first thing i would suggest is to clear the cache, just in case the browser is loading an old cached page. Otherwise, could he have a proxy/vpn set up in opera which means he has a different IP address then when he is using chrome?

If they go to www.whatismyip.com/ in opera, and let you know the IP address, does it match anything in the ban list?

[MartinT]

Thank you, both.  That does seem likely so I shall report back to the member.

Regards
Martin

[Scott]

MartinT, fyi I use Opera for some things and have never had an issue using it with ProBoards.

[MartinT]

Thank you all.  It did turn out to be Opera's VPN which was assigning him a banned IP.