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Steven Royston O'Neill

Steven Royston O'Neill

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Nothing to do with football this, its about an IP address.

Its made up of a set of numbers so, lets say my address is,

12.23.34.45.56,

is that unique to me or can other people have the same address?
 
No, it should be unique, and if I recall correctly it changes every time you reboot the router - but I'd look that one up!
 
The reason I ask is I can now check a users IP address, put mine in and a few others and all come up with the same answer, one user suggesting its unique.

One has a number of users so could it be one person with multiple user names or say a work system with a number of people working together with the same address.
 
Your IP address should be unique to yourself.

ISP's have blocks that they hand out to their customers, so even if your personal IP address changes it should still fall within that block of addresses.

I'm on cable and my IP address usually stays the same. ( I can change that by using a proxy server mind. )
 
So if that the case, and say I search for the IP for, lets say, Big Chris and it finds it, I then ask for other users of that IP and it gives me say 5 users on this forum, are they all the same person?
 
cyprussydsafc said:
So if that the case, and say I search for the IP for, lets say, Big Chris and it finds it, I then ask for other users of that IP and it gives me say 5 users on this forum, are they all the same person?
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Yes

edit: and by the way please do this and post the results to prove I have no other accounts
 
cyprussydsafc said:
So if that the case, and say I search for the IP for, lets say, Big Chris and it finds it, I then ask for other users of that IP and it gives me say 5 users on this forum, are they all the same person?
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It can get complicated Syd some businesses have one address to the outside world but hand out internal addresses on their network. So you would only see the business address.
 
cyprussydsafc said:
So if that the case, and say I search for the IP for, lets say, Big Chris and it finds it, I then ask for other users of that IP and it gives me say 5 users on this forum, are they all the same person?
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It can get complicated Syd some businesses have one address to the outside world but hand out internal addresses on their network. So you would only see the business address.
 
Syd not sure but I think if you are a dial up customer i.e. not broadband IP addresses may be shared. Broadband should be unique. The reason being ISP providers use proxy connections allowing more than one person to have the same IP address
 
cyprussydsafc said:
Nothing to do with football this, its about an IP address.

Its made up of a set of numbers so, lets say my address is,

12.23.34.45.56,

is that unique to me or can other people have the same address?
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Syd - it is not as easy as that

http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/definition/static-IP-address-dynamic-IP-address

Think of the internet being a massive car park with VIP parking...

Some cars will always have the same allocated parking, but the majority of cars will have to try and find a parking space...

this is almost true of the internet as well, if I sign out from my ISP (turn off the modem) and somebody else from the same ISP turns their modem on - it is very likely that they will now have the IP address that I just had, and when I turn my modem on, I will now be assigned a new IP address...
 
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