XE Col
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Registered: 23rd May 10
Location: Rochdale, AKA:Boissy07
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Would my next door neighbor have a similar IP Address as mine or is that not how it works?
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Aaron
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Location: Cottingham, East Riding
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If he or she uses the same ISP, then their IP might be in the same range/subnet as yours....but it wont be very close to what you have IMO
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XE Col
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Registered: 23rd May 10
Location: Rochdale, AKA:Boissy07
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so in theory if my provider is scottish and southern electric, if someone the other end of the country had the same provider then the could have a similar IP?
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ashleh
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Registered: 23rd Dec 08
Location: Nottingham
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Possible, it depends on the time allocated I believe? No IP is ever the same though.
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XE Col
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i was banned from a site as i had a very similar IP to a scammer, so im wondering if he lives nearby or could live a million miles away in efffect
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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They're generally grouped by location and managed locally but there's nothing to stop the adjacent addresses being hundreds of miles away if that is how the network is set up.
It would also be unlikely that your neighbour got a similar one although that too is not impossible.
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Tom G
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Registered: 4th Aug 08
Location: Cheshire
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Turn your router on and off again? Simples.
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XE Col
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so in effect, the similar IP could really be anywhere in the country
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XE Col
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom G
Turn your router on and off again? Simples.
You mean off and on again?
do you get a new IP every time you do this?
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom G
Turn your router on and off again? Simples.
Unless you've got a static IP.
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Tom G
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Registered: 4th Aug 08
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Same thang!!! As john said, might be worth finding out, only takes about a minute.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by John
quote:
Originally posted by Tom G
Turn your router on and off again? Simples.
Unless you've got a static IP.
Or a 'sticky' IP, ie: it's dynamic but rarely changes (usual case with VM cable connections).
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Aren't IP addresses allocated geographically? Or is geocoding from an IP address done in some different way?
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Geocoding from an IP usually shows you back at the ISP's head office.
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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Most websites that claim to geocode from IP tell me I'm in Wolverhampton or somewhere random like that (not even anywhere near Wolverhampton) but there's one website that lets you put a visitor widget on your own site that seems to accurately tell me what town I'm in (although it's county information isn't any newer than 1974 because it thinks I'm in in Staffordshire not West Midlands).
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