IP address starting with 192- and 10-
 

This is to whomever gave the advice to block all users with the ip address of 192-or 10- users. I was under the impression they were leafs that had no files to offer. So i took this persons advice and blocked all these users which started with the said IP #. I looked on the net and it gave me my IP address, something starting with a 6... Well in my system preferences (FYI) on my macOSX notebook computer using wireless internet it states my IP address begins with a 192...
Maybe my network configured the info. wrong and my real IP starts with a 6..., but before i trust a internet site, i would love an explation as to how my computer got so confused. I am not freeloader on the limewire system. Ive been an ultrapeer many times, and ive got files to share, worthy of thou.
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Im taking off the restrictions i placed on IP addresses unless someone can convice me my computer is wrong.

the advice to avoid NAT'ed hosts is quite old and may have helped last year. I agree that now so many of those old workarounds are unnecessary.

If you are using wireless, your base station has the real IP, and other computer that talks to your base station gets a local address. NAT= Network Address Translation, which means the computers linked to your base station get a NAT'ed address like 192.168.1.* When they talk to the base station, the base (gateway) translates the local address into the external address (and keep track of where to send the replies).

umm--would you mind shrinking your foxy little tail a bit? I don't want to explain that your tail fills my screen.:p

opps, shrunk my tail
 

Didnt realise how big the pic was, this should be better