Why does the PC and web tell me different IPs?

Question

Im trying to configure my router to work with utorrent by Port Forwarding. The web tells me my IP is 69.249.144.22
While the PC tells me something totally different.. I dont understand?

Thanks,

Dominick

PC as in Running CMD and typing ipconfig /all and the web being websites such as "whatsmyIP.com" and websites like that.

Still dont understand how they get a different IP.. any ideas?

Answer 1

The router connects the internet to your home net. Your router's home net side probably has an address like 192.168.1.1 and it hands out addresses to the other computers with numbers like 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.101 and so on.

On the internet side, your ISP hands the router a number which is in the subnet "owned" by the ISP.

Your router takes any request from any computer on your network and "translates" it to the 69.249.144.22 (which can change periodically, btw). Then when a reply comes back it routes it to the correct computer.

You need to do the appropriate port forwarding inside your router. Check the documentation for details.

Answer 2

The router also functions as a DHCP server and normally issues 192.168.xxx.xxx address to devices connected to it. If your router has a DMZ option you may have to list your computer there. The 69.249.144.22 is the source IP Address that all traffic goes out on.

Answer 3

A computer has two IP's. One of them is your computer. The "Address of your computer," this is the physical IP. Then you have a virtual one. This is the mail "deliverer," while you still have your physical one, you have one for the internet. For the torrent your IP should be the "mail" one. So the one for uTorrent is = 69.249.114.22

Answer 4

your modem and router have 2 differnt ip's. the actual ip you need is the one in your modem.