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Originally Posted by Horace
Why on earth would anyone attempt a DDoS attack on a residential connection with a dynamic I.P. address? If someone had the resources to carry out an attack do you really think they'd waste them on such a worthless and movable target? There's a lot of reasons why someone may be attempting to connect and a DDoS attack is the most unlikely. To even suggest it is simply scare mongering or due to lack of knowledge and will almost certainly not help in finding a solution to the connection problems.
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I didn't say DDoS I said DoS, there is a significant difference.
In my experience in this field it does happen, more often than you think and would be naive on your part to think it doesn't happen to dynamic IP's. I have also given other explanations too.
Being DoS'd is no big deal, I am not scare mongering, and as you say because the OP is on a dynamic IP and has already seen a drop in activity when swapping to a new IP via a USB connection, there is no problem, is there.