Me and My wife both have different ISP and Different Routers ,but the same Ip is showing, why?

Question

I checked and re-checked. We are on different networks, there are no conflicts, please help!

Answer 1

it depends whether you're talking about the external INTERNET ip addresses, or the internal NETWORK ip addresses.

network ip addresses for home users with routers will generally be something along the lines of 192.168.0.x which is fine as long as there are no duplicate ip addresses on the SAME network/router.

if they are truly the internet side ip addresses and you truly both have different internet services providers and you are actually connecting using the seperate service providers there is little reason why they should be the same because blocks of ip addresses are "owned" by internet service providers and so duplicate ip addresses on the internet worldwide shouldn't be possible.

what exactly is "showing" that the ip addresses are the same?

Answer 2

Different ISP and different routers? in 1 home?

Even it's quite weird, since you don't need router for 1 computers
or 2 computers with 2 different connection

The ip can be assigned through control panel>network connection
and right click the connection meant to open it's properties, select the ip and configure it manually

maybe the same IP is not the public IP (usually 192.168.0.x)
the router usually always have 192.168.0.1 in most cases, so perhaps both of your computers have 192.168.0.2

If there are no conflicts, the bandwidth is not reduced, then it's already right, you do not need to repair anything

Answer 3

Dahlia, the IP may be the same but the ISP matters. Because, the ISP has the total control over the IP's, even different routers means giving more support to the IP's.

Answer 4

You can both have the same private IP handed out by your router. That's pretty common. You DO have different public IPs on the external interfaces of your routers though.

Answer 5

Are you both using wireless? As long as the individual units show both , it should not make a difference.

Answer 6

If both are showing as 192.168.xxx.xxx, where xxx is some number, that doesn't mean anything, as it's INTERNAL to your part of the network. What number shows up WITHIN your network is not relevant.