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Originally posted by superb
Okay, how is your network setup? Do you have one cable modem that is shared between your computers or do you have two separate cable modems? What Houdiniman means is that in a home network setup using one cable modem, the home network uses local IP addresses. Each one of your machines can have ANY IP you choose (though most people just use the standard 192.168.1.* setup for ease of configuration). When you access the internet through a home network, the node that requests internet access forwards the request to a router. The router receives the request and sends it to your cable modem which then fetches the content and sends it back to the router which then sends it back to you. In this setup, the router is known as a gateway because all internet access requests must first go through the router before going to the cable modem. The reason you do this is because cable modems are assigned an IP by your ISP (it could be static or dynamic, but it usually static). Since the modem is only assigned one IP, only one computer can use it at a time because two computers cannot share the same IP address. The router allieviates this problem by serving as a gateway to the cable modem. So the router is the only node assigned an internet IP. Keeping that in mind, all local computers will have the same internet IP since the router is the only node that is assigned one. If you have two cable modems, then each computer will have its own internet IP since each cable modem is assigned its own.
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One cable modem, with 3 cables running through a switch box to the modem...all I know is if you look at the IP on the computer, they are all different, and those are the IP's I used on RC, all 3 computers in my house have been used on RC. One MG's, one mine, and one is my daughters who was a GP Captain a long time ago. All IP's were different, that's all I know about the IP crap. So are you saying that the IP's are different on the computer, but they all run through an outside IP that is the same? or something like that.......