is there a way to get around soft bans or realm downs in diablo 2? I heard something about messing with proxys can do it anyone have an idea?

Check profile.

impossible to read anything in your profile

I believe it's this that he is after:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=27247752&f=21

does that still work im being told it doesn't has anyone actually tried it recently? I haven't been realmed down in a lil because ive been extra careful lol

You're probably better off asking this in a D2 channel, as though this is D2jsp, a lot of us stopped playing years ago.