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Very weird IP address trouble?

  • I don't know what I did to cause it, but here goes. I am connected wirelessly to my router. It assigns an IP address to my machine automatically. If I check my IP address in Vista, it reports it as my normal address, but when I try to check it from a website that tells you your IP address, it comes up wrong. Utorrent doesn't work with this 'wrong' IP address either, no ports were being forwarded properly. I had to manually assign an IP address to my computer. With the manually assigned IP address, the website that tells you your IP still gives me the wrong one, but at least now Utorrent works and ports are being forwarded properly. Can anyone decipher this and tell me what's going on?

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    When you hook up a router between a computer and a modem...the router uses its own "router IP address. Which basically means the IP address is from the Router..not from what the computer orginally assigns. This method is actually more secure and if more then 1 computer are connected to the Router. It will still detect as being 1 IP address..which is the Routers IP Address.

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Your computer only have 1 actual IP address, and that is it's LOCAL ADDRESS, maybe 192.168.1.8 or some other #. When you go to a website and ask for your IP address, they will give you a PUBLIC IP Address, this an IP that is assigned to your cable modem, DSL modem or router... This IP from the website is for all internet traffic that orginates behind your ultimate source of internet access (either DSL or Cable modem). Your LOCAL IP address only makes sense to your physical equipment in your reach, each computer has a different LAN address. But all the computers on your LAN share the same PUBLIC IP, the internet device that reaches the internet.

This sounds normal to me. Your router will assign you an internal ip address, something like 192.168.x.x. The ip address that connects to a website is assigned to your dsl or cable modem by your isp.

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