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.

My ISP has given me a whole (small) block of fixed static routable
public IP addresses. I am only large in the physical sense of the
word....