If you’re a network administrator, chances are at some point you may need to set up a number of different networks on your IP range. In order to do this, you will need to know how to create different subnets. There are two main things to remember when trying to calculate subnets. The first is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Find Out Your Computer’s IP Address
I have received two emails in the past week from users who asked me for an easy way of finding their computer’s IP address. Instead of replying to each user individually I made the decision to write it up here on Ghacks so that other users who were wondering about the same thing could benefit [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Look-up IP Address Information
The IP (Internet Protocol, see The IP: The housenumber of your Computer for more information) address is a unique device identifier. Every website on the Internet has an IP address associated with it, as does every computer that is used to connect to the Internet. Computer users rarely come in contact with IP addresses, unless [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
- Comments: 9
Finally, a Judge That Understands that an IP Is Not a Person
Everyone knows the risks of working on an open Wi-Fi connection. Everything can be stolen from your security to your bandwidth. But the courts in the US have been historically unaware of the implications of an open Wi Fi connection. Finally, though, there appears to be one judge that understands that an IP connection does [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 8
Change IP Address With IP Switcher
Being able to switch IP addresses can be essential if you work in different network environments. Changing the network settings manually whenever you work in a different location can be time consuming. Tools like IP Switcher or the previously reviewed Fast IP Switcher can be very handy in those situations. The tool basically allows the [...]
Who shares your shared hosting?
I host my website on shared hosting. My connection is too slow and unreliable to justify running my own server and I have no need to hire a dedicated server or a VPS. Consequently, many other websites are hosted on the same box as mine and I have often wondered their nature. In addition to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
Set Static IP Address
Setting a static IP address for the local network adapter can be advantageous in several ways. It is for instance important if the computer is connected to a router with configured port forwarding. There are other benefits which are not part of this article. Experienced computer users know how to set static IP addresses for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Display Dynamic IP Address
There are numerous ways to obtain information about a dynamic IP address. The most common method is probably to visit a site on the Internet that is displaying information about the IP in the web browser. Ghacks for example has a small IP Lookup script for that purpose. There are also other ways of obtaining [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 9
Open DNS
My Internet Provider decided to capture data that I entered in a browser’s address bar that could not be resolved to an Internet address and provide me with their own search interface instead of the default one that I enabled in the browsers. This is one of those sneaky moves that makes me want to [...]