Question about IP adress

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What is an IP adress?
Is it related to the internet account one uses or to the computer connected
to the internet?
If a message is posted to a newsgroup or forum from two different computers
at the same location and using the same internet account will each message
have a different IP number?
The reason I am asking is because my daughter was posting to a forum and
they checked her IP then accused her of being another individual who had
been banned for posting insulting messages, but she says that she had not
posted to that forum before.
She did buy her laptop from another kid at her school recently.
I am just trying to get to the bottom of this to see if she has been up to
something nasty or whether there can be a mixup when forums check IP
identities.
Her forum is not like these unmoderated usenet newsgroups but rather a forum
where you first register and get a password and then log in whenever you
visit the site.
Thanks for any insight into this.

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Thanks for your quick reply.
We have a broadband through an NTL cable modem built into out cable tv set
top box and a wire going to my ethernet card in my computer. My desktop is
normally connected to it. When my daughter wants to use her laptop, she
takes the connector coming from the cable modem to my desktop and plugs it
into her laptop but we have to reboot the broadband connection to get it to
recognize the laptop and then do it again when I replug my desktop to the
cable modem.
If the forum that did the IP check on her says that the earlier messages
came from the same person, would you tend to conclude that they are correct
(and my kid may be up to something I don't like) or that there could be a
mistake.
I am very worried about kids getting involved in some of these forums in a
bad way.
Thanks again.
"Kadaitcha Man" <nospam@kadaitcha.cx> wrote in message
news:B0AAF02YZEkW421CD4AF8C6932FFqvoy3xjVNJtx@kadaitcha.cx...
> "Luis ORTEGA" <lortega@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:rx2nc.72$PF3.58@newsfe1-gui.server.ntli.net...
> > What is an IP adress?
> > Is it related to the internet account one uses or to the computer
> connected
> > to the internet?
> > If a message is posted to a newsgroup or forum from two different
> computers
> > at the same location and using the same internet account will each
message
> > have a different IP number?
> > The reason I am asking is because my daughter was posting to a forum and
> > they checked her IP then accused her of being another individual who had
> > been banned for posting insulting messages, but she says that she had
not
> > posted to that forum before.
> > She did buy her laptop from another kid at her school recently.
> > I am just trying to get to the bottom of this to see if she has been up
to
> > something nasty or whether there can be a mixup when forums check IP
> > identities.
> > Her forum is not like these unmoderated usenet newsgroups but rather a
> forum
> > where you first register and get a password and then log in whenever you
> > visit the site.
>
> It has nothing to do with the PC. if you have a dialup connection, you
will
> get a different IP everytime you dialup. if you have a DSL connection, you
> might have a dynamic IP that changes every few hours to every few days. If
> you have a static Ip (DSL or cable) then the IP never changes.
>
> If more than 1 PC is posting from the same site and through the same
> internet connection, both machines will display the same IP.
>
>
>

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Luis ORTEGA wrote:
> What is an IP adress?

It is the address of your computer. Just like your house has an address,
your computer has one as well, to let other computers know where you are.

> Is it related to the internet account one uses or to the computer
> connected to the internet?

Both. Different ISP's use different ranges of numbers for the ip addresses
and it depends on the type on connection and if networks are involved.

> If a message is posted to a newsgroup or forum from two different
> computers at the same location and using the same internet account
> will each message have a different IP number?

Depends on what kind of connection your using(dial-up, broadband, etc), if
your sharing the connection, if one is connecting then the other.

> The reason I am asking is because my daughter was posting to a forum
> and they checked her IP then accused her of being another individual
> who had been banned for posting insulting messages, but she says that
> she had not posted to that forum before.

If your on dial-up then your ip address changes everytime you connect to the
internet. So if someone was banned once you could very well get their ip the
next time you connected.

> She did buy her laptop from another kid at her school recently.
> I am just trying to get to the bottom of this to see if she has been
> up to something nasty or whether there can be a mixup when forums
> check IP identities.

Doesn't matter if she bought that computer, the ip address comes from
connectiing to the internet. It doesn't stay with the computer.

> Her forum is not like these unmoderated usenet newsgroups but rather
> a forum where you first register and get a password and then log in
> whenever you visit the site.
> Thanks for any insight into this.

Maybe someone has her user and password and is posing as her.

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"Phil" <I.fix.probs@for.you> wrote in message
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> Luis ORTEGA wrote:
> > What is an IP adress?
>
> It is the address of your computer. Just like your house has an address,
> your computer has one as well, to let other computers know where you are.
>
> > Is it related to the internet account one uses or to the computer
> > connected to the internet?
>
> Both. Different ISP's use different ranges of numbers for the ip addresses
> and it depends on the type on connection and if networks are involved.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA!!!

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On 08 May 2004 in comp.sys.laptops, Luis ORTEGA wrote:

> When my daughter wants to use her laptop, she
> takes the connector coming from the cable modem to my desktop and
> plugs it into her laptop but we have to reboot the broadband
> connection to get it to recognize the laptop and then do it again
> when I replug my desktop to the cable modem.

To avoid this, and to make yourself safer, get one of the Cable/DSL
routers which are commonly available from Linksys, D-Link, etc:

http://www.linksys.com/products/pr [...] 9&prid=561
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=59

The broadband connection plugs into one side of this; the computer(s)
plug into the other. It offers hardware firewalling, and you can run
more than one computer on one (external) IP address.

Current pricing is under US$60 if you watch sales.

--
Joe Makowiec can be reached at:
http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

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Kadaitcha Man wrote:
> "Tom" <noway@nothere.com> wrote in message
> news:uZUJE3ONEHA.3096@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Luis ORTEGA" <lortega@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:rx2nc.72$PF3.58@newsfe1-gui.server.ntli.net...
>>> What is an IP adress?
>>> Is it related to the internet account one uses or to the computer
>>> connected to the internet?
>>> If a message is posted to a newsgroup or forum from two different
>>> computers at the same location and using the same internet account
>>> will each message have a different IP number?
>>> The reason I am asking is because my daughter was posting to a
>>> forum and they checked her IP then accused her of being another
>>> individual who had been banned for posting insulting messages, but
>>> she says that she had not posted to that forum before.
>>> She did buy her laptop from another kid at her school recently.
>>> I am just trying to get to the bottom of this to see if she has
>>> been up to something nasty or whether there can be a mixup when
>>> forums check IP identities.
>>> Her forum is not like these unmoderated usenet newsgroups but
>>> rather a forum where you first register and get a password and then
>>> log in whenever you visit the site.
>>> Thanks for any insight into this.
>>>
>>
>> An IP address is simply number, up to 12 digits assigned to one
>> that logs onto the net, which identifies that person.
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
>
>> If (and I assume this since you mention Laptop) that it is
>> a dial-up modem, the number is dynamic,
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
>
>
>> Most
>> broadband connections are (typically) connected all the time, have
>> static IPs, they remain the same, unless the ISP changes it from
>> time to time, or one changes their network card, or registers
>> another cable modem.
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH!!!

I see the microsoft.public types have started answering.

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Don't take life too seriously, You won't get out alive.

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Luis ORTEGA wrote:
> What is an IP adress?

It's a way to identify your PC.


> Is it related to the internet account one uses or to the computer connected
> to the internet?

In the simplest sense, your PC requests an IP address and
your ISP's DHCP server provides one.


> If a message is posted to a newsgroup or forum from two different computers
> at the same location and using the same internet account will each message
> have a different IP number?

They might. Or they might now. You can't say.


> The reason I am asking is because my daughter was posting to a forum and
> they checked her IP then accused her of being another individual who had
> been banned for posting insulting messages, but she says that she had not
> posted to that forum before.

Who is "they" who checked her IP? Other kids, or forum moderators?


> She did buy her laptop from another kid at her school recently.

Irrelevant.