IMM wrote:

"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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Your ignorance of computing abounds. IP address are dynamic and that of

the

local ISP, not individual machines. So many people could have the same IP
address at many times. Duh!


Not actually true.

ISPs with dial up users will typically, but not necessarily have a
dynamic address pool for those users. They may also assign dynamic
addresses for the cheaper DSL packages.

I can appreciate that that is possibly what you have.

The more expensive "broadband" packages allocate the customer one
static IP address and may on request provide a larger block if needed.


No ISP allocates one IP address to one individual user, unless it is a large
user. IP addresses are scarce, very scare. One of the big problems of TC/IP
is that the addressing stinks, although this is being worked on.



Shows how little you know. I used to have about 2000 addresses and no
users on em at all.

(hint: Servers)