Wow... Plutom.  You are truly a rare find. 56k modem..  I'm going to assume that you have used a faster connection before and say that you have some discipline.   I don't think I could ever go back to 56k.

For the I.P. thing they make programs that either hide or change your I.P. for you. My wife gets them all the time on her site and it makes it difficult for her to keep track of multiple logins from multiple locations which is usually the first sign of password sharing.