Hey everyone, this isn't a question to do with this website at all, its a problem my parents are having. They want to know if they have seperate computers (3 to be precise) all hooked up to a router, can their IP addresses be tracked back to the same household??
Any ideas much appreciated!! :grin:
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Computer question!
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Well the company who provides the internet service can know who's IP it is.. but the general lay-person can't.
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hmm, does that mean that the ip address from a router will basically say that all the computers are from the same place or am I missing the point entirely?? thanks you two
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mm yes, I understand that , all I want to know is if the owner of a website (ata for example) can see that the computers are on the same LAN sorry for being such a pain with this and thanks for helping!
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Yes... If you and your parents each had an account at A2A and you all posted under different names from 3 different computers, we would see all 3 of you with the same IP.
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See this is what confused me.. I posted from my moms computer once, and it came up with a different IP to mine. That was when my brain began hurting! lol!
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trying from moms computer ah.. you are right...
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Okay! I have my answers now thanks alot sdp and helms
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Helms is talking about the local IP of the computer and I'm talking about the IP of the Router which is what is seen by the outside world. The local IP can't be seen by us becasue of NAT.. but the external IP of the router is seen. Now if you have a static IP then the router's IP never changes. BUT and I think this is the case.. if you have a dynamic IP with your internet provider, then that IP (the one that we see) CAN change. If you shut off the router and then restart it... It's not guaranteed that you will get the same IP as before.
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SDP is there any way to make it so that the IP address is different for each computer or will it always be like that?? There is a game that my mom likes to play online but it only allows one person from an IP address online at any given time, so my dad can't play too basically.. lol! parents sigh
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You would have to pay for multiple static IP's and have a router that can support a one-to-one NAT... meaning that a givin IP is assigned to one computer. The other IP would be assigned to the other computer(s)... But this all costs extra money. Somthing you would probably want a computer saavy or professional person setup for you. For example, here at work, we have a dedicated IP for email traffic. The other IP is dedicated to all the PC's in house for internet traffic. It's all handled by one cable modem and a router. A single modem can handle multiple IP's (not dial-up though).
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This all reminds me of my first Cisco class. Keep up the good work guys.
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Ahh helms how is that done?
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That's a good point.. I forgot about that. I've never tried using it though. Make sure you read this though...http://theproxyconnection.com/openproxy.htmlThis one I know has been around for a long time.. http://www.anonymizer.com/