I live in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai and our government instructs the ISP to use a proxy server mainly for internet content filtering. So what I want to ask is that is my real IP address hidden? I have a DSL line at home. I typed in 'ipconfig' on Command Prompt and it showed that my IP address is 192.168.254.1 and in a website it showed that my IP is 195.229.241.182 What does this mean? And can i change my IP address?
2007-06-23 00:04:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
If your IP shows 192.168,x,x then your computer is on a "PRIVATE" network and is not publicly viewable.
There are several networking IP's that are only used for private networks.. these include IP's in the 10.x.x.x range and 192.168.x.x and one I forget at the moment..(getting old)
These are considered "non-routable" private networks.
The 195.229.x.x is the ISP's public IP and you have no control over it since they assign that to the proxy server.
2007-06-23 01:57:36 · answer #1 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes your real ip is hidden. It can be changed if you use proxy sites like http://www.proxify.org/
Hope it solves your problem.
2007-06-23 00:08:51 · answer #2 · answered by Zohaib 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋