Hush, please.
No need to go fighting.
@Orange County: Main question: Which kind of IP do you have?
There are two different ways IPs are given out.
In the USA many people have stable IPs. Those remain the same every time you connect to the internet. For this the USA uses most of the available IP addresses. That's called static IP.
Therefore, in the rest of the world, most people only get their IP assigned, when they connect to the internet, and lose it once they disconnect, because there weren't enough IP addresses left for all. That's called dynamic IP.
If you have a static IP, it is like a phone number.
If you have a dynamic IP, it is just a temporary number, but the ISPs know, who had it at any time (in Germany up to 3 months back). |