I just read this in the BD forum. It is about why sometimes two people will have the same IP, and that the IP might show a location which the person with that IP may not be actually dailing from. And it seems that this is the case with AOL users.
"85.147.32.113 is the IP adress that IDs my PC with the ISP.
It is not the IP of my PC! I am behind a router.ie a modem that can connect more than one pc to the same connection.[ This is the WAN connection] Every pc behind the router has a different IP.[ This is the LAN connection] It can be static [ always the same] or dynamic[ assigned a different IP every time athe pc makes a new connection.[ every morning] .If you work in an office with 8 pc,s and you use the same pc everyday, the chances are you will have a static IP . In any case, if any of the people in your office would post to the CCB, they would have the same IP as you do.!
Have you checked your IP? ipconfig/all
Am I making any sense? LOL"
Another post:
"How this works is that big providers like AOL have their customers behind routers. Individual IPs are assigned on the customer side of the router (Identical IPs will result in routing conflicts) and all of these different IPs go out to the Internet through the same AOL router, so it appears that multiple people have the same IP. This is called Network Address Translation. NAT was implemented years ago to save the dwindling pool of V4 IP addresses which is finite. This way, hundreds or thousands of AOL customers can surf through a single AOL address, and they have many of these types of networks in place- "
All these can be found here: http://www.billiardsdigest.com/ccbo...e=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=2#Post203216
Is it really true?
I know I should post it as non pool related but I figure this section has more traffic. This issue has been bothering me for a long time and I really wish I can get to the bottom of it. If someone has a problem of this post being here, I will remove it and post it in the non pool related forum.
Thank you.
Richard
"85.147.32.113 is the IP adress that IDs my PC with the ISP.
It is not the IP of my PC! I am behind a router.ie a modem that can connect more than one pc to the same connection.[ This is the WAN connection] Every pc behind the router has a different IP.[ This is the LAN connection] It can be static [ always the same] or dynamic[ assigned a different IP every time athe pc makes a new connection.[ every morning] .If you work in an office with 8 pc,s and you use the same pc everyday, the chances are you will have a static IP . In any case, if any of the people in your office would post to the CCB, they would have the same IP as you do.!
Have you checked your IP? ipconfig/all
Am I making any sense? LOL"
Another post:
"How this works is that big providers like AOL have their customers behind routers. Individual IPs are assigned on the customer side of the router (Identical IPs will result in routing conflicts) and all of these different IPs go out to the Internet through the same AOL router, so it appears that multiple people have the same IP. This is called Network Address Translation. NAT was implemented years ago to save the dwindling pool of V4 IP addresses which is finite. This way, hundreds or thousands of AOL customers can surf through a single AOL address, and they have many of these types of networks in place- "
All these can be found here: http://www.billiardsdigest.com/ccbo...e=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=2#Post203216
Is it really true?
I know I should post it as non pool related but I figure this section has more traffic. This issue has been bothering me for a long time and I really wish I can get to the bottom of it. If someone has a problem of this post being here, I will remove it and post it in the non pool related forum.
Thank you.
Richard