Same user multiple IPs varying only last digit

[Imperial Fritz]

I'm pretty sure there's a user or two that have IPs that constantly change their last digit for some reason, like every two minutes or so. I have no idea how that works but that results in a totaly inacurate "users active" count, as well as most users online (180 whereas in reality they couldn't have been more than 20-30). Any ideas how to fix that?

[Imperial Fritz]

bump?.... at least some ideas or explanations what the problem is?

[Paul M]

Nope, never heard of such a thing, and I can't imagine it happening - it would be a nightmare - as the person would suffer constant connectivity issues.

[peterska2]

Are you sure it isn't spiders

[Andreas]

AOL uses proxy-clusters, so each request from an AOL user might have a different IP.

[Imperial Fritz]

Originally Posted by peterska2

Are you sure it isn't spiders

I suppose it is, but isn't there a way to show only one connection from them or just ignore them completely?