If a site can track you by your IP does your IP always stay the same? Is there a way to change it? If you are on a laptop on a wireless connection is your IP different depending on where you are linking up? Does it vary by WI-FI network? If I am at home would my IP change if I went through another link than I usually connect through?
2007-11-13 08:17:03 · 5 answers · asked by Lexas 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
These people all have some parts right and are wrong on some as well.
Think of your IP address more as you do to the address of your house. You have an address to your house so that people can locate you. If you don't tell the pizza man where you live, he won't be able to deliver your pizza. Much of the same is with the way internet traffic is handled. If you tell your computer to send you the contents of www.yahoo.com, it can retrieve it, but if Yahoo doesn't know where to send it, you won't get it.
Your internet service provider will give you one address per modem so it doesn't matter what kind of a network setup you have at your house. The difference is that your router is able to give out more IP addresses to distinguish between devices in your residence. There are certain addresses reserved specifically for LANs so that internet traffic so it doesn't get confused with internet traffic.
Your IP address can change, but it's no big deal because your ISP knows where to find you by your cable modem.
2007-11-13 09:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by acuity007 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No your IP doesn't always stay the same unless you're paying for it.
You can only change it when the ISP wants to change it. Basically they lease you an IP.
Yes your IP changes when you are connecting to seperate Wireless networks.
Each Wi-Fi network will have it's own IP and you will get a new internal IP address which is just for the network.
If you're at home your IP will change if you go through a seperate connection.
Good Luck HTH.
2007-11-13 08:26:27 · answer #2 · answered by Joe K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your IP can change depending on your ISP provider, but in most cases it will remain the same for a period of time. If you change venue then you will pick up a new IP address from that provider, lets say you take your lep top from home to a WiFi hot spot. There you will pick up a new IP. At home its all up again to your ISP and how they handle their IP addressing but most providers, unless you pay extra, provide dynamic IP addresses so they change periodically.
2007-11-13 08:28:40 · answer #3 · answered by Slick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can change your ip by going to the comand promt and typing
ipconfig/release
and rebooting your pc and modem
2007-11-13 08:27:40 · answer #4 · answered by al b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your IP address is more like the identity of your computer.. it means.. the IP address is his gene or DNA
2007-11-13 08:44:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋