IP Numbers
Is there an "IP Numbers for Dummies" guide book,or similar ?
I ask because Mrs. ExS is trying to make a booking for a few months hence, and using one of these evil websites that increases the price every time she visits the site.
She suggested that if she should now use my laptop instead of the desktop that she more usually uses, or take the laptop to California - which is going to happen anyway this year - in either case would the site now think she was someone new, and start her off again at the lower price, or show the same IP number that the spies on the website are recording for her now ?
I assumed so, as I've been under the impression that an IP number was unique to each and every computer, but then checked the IP number of our two home computers, one desktop and one laptop and Lo! they were the same, showing me being in my New Zealand village by name.
'tis a puzzlement.
Having got a headache sorting out masses of information that I obtained from Giggle, all I can come up with is that the Modem (router ? ) that we use at home feeds both computers, one via a hardwire Ethernet cable and one WiFi, and it is the IP number of that gadget that the outside World is noting, not individual computer numbers, hence, should we take a computer to California then our IP number recorded would be the one relevant to Starbucks WiFi outlet, if that is what we might use. N'est ce pas ?
For now I'm trying to persuade Mrs Exs. to "remove cookies and history" every time she signs off from the website that she is perusing, but is that enough ?
I'm confused because I've played around with ExpatShield and the like,which assigns an IP number to my computer - or does it do it to the Modem - that bears no relation to my present location, so that I can view BBC iPlayer outside the UK for instance, so would that also help fool the money-grabbing website from assuming Mrs ExS. is the same person again and trying to extort a higher price second,third, or fourth time around on her frequent enquiries ?
Words of one syllable please !
I blame Bill Gates !
Last edited by ExSp33db1rd; 2nd March 2014 at 19:53.