another ip address question?

Question

okay so i have an ip address question..when i go to start and enter ipconfig, it gives me one ip address,one subnet and one other number..when i go to ip chicken it gives me another ip address..which i was told one was internal one was external.so when a website checks your ip address which one are they getting and if they ban it which one are they banning.. i live in a community with 281 people and the external ip is all the same. so how do they know if it only one person or 200 from the same place?

Answer 1

each modem has its own internal IP address.that is the one that gets banned.the modem is what conects your computer to the internet.

Answer 2

I'm not familiar with IP chicken, but I assume this is a site that displays your IP address. This would be the IP address that is seen by any site on the Internet.

It sounds like you are accessing the Internet through a router or firewall that hides the true IP addresses of the machines that it protects.

If done properly, this can make it harder for a potential attacker to reach your machine. The internal IP address is usually chosen from a block of reserved addresses that are never assigned to computers that are accessed directly from the Internet.

For example, 192.168.0.1 is a reserved address. It isn't possible for someone to send data through the Internet to that address, because the routers that are used to forward Internet traffic to its destination will notice the reserved address and discard the data.

Web servers can't easily determine whether an IP address corresponds to a single computer, or to an entire community that is sharing the same IP address, although it might be possible to figure this out by analyzing the traffic originating from the IP address. Banning all traffic from an IP address will affect everyone who shares that address.

Answer 3

The "one other number' is like a telephone extension, your only.

If you need more info, please re-post with:

"one other number" the actual numbers

Cable or DSL modem

Name of your ISP

Then, we can try to help.