You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s ...

Need to know your Mac’s IP address? You’ve come to the right place. We show how to find this information, as well as explaining what an IP address is and the difference between internal and external ...

You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s ...

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IP addresses are like opinions… everyone has one. But not every IP address is created equal. Some IP addresses are dynamic, which means they automatically change, based on router settings. Also: ...

Need to get your network's external IP address on the quick—say for a quick round of port forwarding testing? You could head to your router's admin page, but that's ...

Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a ...

[Bayres’] dad setup a webcam as a surveillance camera for a remote property. The only problem was that the only stable Internet connection they could get at this property was DSL. This meant that the ...

I'm currently using a WRT54G router with Tomato firmware and I have a simple residential dynamic ip address cable modem. The cable modem is in "bridged" mode and the router is set to use DHCP to get ...

Your Linksys router uses a dynamic external IP address leased from your ISP. This dynamic address changes based on the time limits of the lease. If your ISP permits, you can prevent the external IP ...