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@DZ: you know my IP please PM me my IP ..


my IP was before my old one 74.111.***.** (DZ you know it)

now it has changed to... 99.245.*.***


same goes with all my other stuff.. gateway, dns

what has happened? I cannot access my sites and http://ip-adress.com is saying that i am in the United States instead of Canada..

what shall I do

You probably have a dynamic IP address, every time you connect to the internet your address changes...

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Originally posted by roflmao456
http://ip-adress.com is saying that i am in the United States instead of Canada..

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Who cares where it thinks you're from? Sites like these make estimates.

I thought it was everytime you reboot your router it changes.

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Originally posted by roflmao456
@DZ: you know my IP please PM me my IP ..

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Done.

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what has happened?

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Your ISP is probably just doing some restructuring, and increasing their capacity. The 99.245.*.* range looks like it was registered recently, which would explain why those IP-locator services don't yet recognize it. Nothing to worry about.

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Originally posted by Nathan
I thought it was everytime you reboot your router it changes.

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thats if its a broadband modem i think, but its usually pretty easy to sort that.

lool for months i had my old ip.  o well

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Originally posted by Volv
You probably have a dynamic IP address, every time you connect to the internet your address changes...

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Originally posted by Nathan
I thought it was everytime you reboot your router it changes.

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If your router does the connecting to the internet, then rebooting your router connects to your ISP again. If your ISP gives you a dynamic IP address, then each time you connect, you get a new one (will usually be different, sometimes you get the same one back).

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Originally posted by Volv

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Originally posted by roflmao456
http://ip-adress.com is saying that i am in the United States instead of Canada..

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Who cares where it thinks you're from? Sites like these make estimates.

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They look up the location of your IP address, and it usually points to your ISP. My ISP is based in NSW (their only pop is there), Australia, and that's where I am, and that's what I get told my location is when I look it up by IP address. The suburb is wrong though. My ISP offers services Australia-wide, and even a user in another state get's told that their in NSW because that's where the ISP is.

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Originally posted by rav0
They look up the location of your IP address, and it usually points to your ISP. My ISP is based in NSW (their only pop is there), Australia, and that's where I am, and that's what I get told my location is when I look it up by IP address. The suburb is wrong though. My ISP offers services Australia-wide, and even a user in another state get's told that their in NSW because that's where the ISP is.

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Firstly, not all IP-locators do a live trace to your ISP etc. every single time you visit their webpage or whatever, many of them use IP databases because blocks of IPs are registered to different countries (well ISPs in the country).
Secondly, tracking it down to the location of your ISP is an estimate of your location anyway so my statement is still just as valid.