Internet Protocol Address

[mki.rahulb30]

My IP address in my modem's configuration page starts with 10.x.x.x . But when I hit "IP" in google, it shows my public IP Address which starts with 106.x.x.x . What can be done ?

 

[nigelivey]

Your modem address is an internal address, that of the lan interface on your router and is never seen by the outside world (10.) , your public facing address is the wan interface on your router. (106.) What problem are you trying to solve exactly?

 

[mki.rahulb30]

The IP in my router's config page is the WAN IP which should be the same as the public IP (it was the same couple months ago). I tried to find the location of the public IP and it is exposed to another town in my neighboring state and the IP belongs to my ISP. Why is it going through another town to connect to the internet? This has not happend before.

 

[nigelivey]

Geo location using online services is not an accurate location, your ISP will have blocks of IP address, you can not lock it down that reliably.

 

[bill001g]

Pretty much the ISP does what it wants when it comes to how they connect their routers to other ISP routers and where they locate their equipment. Your only real option is to change ISP if it does not perform well and unfortunately most people do not have much choice when it comes to changing ISP.

Now if you are just interested in digging around and figuring out how things are connected there are a lot of tools. A number of ISP will give you limited access to their routers. Many times this function is called "looking glass". It varies greatly from ISP to ISP if they even have it.

My favorite site to start with is

https://bgp.he.net/

Again this will not improve your network connection it is something to mess with when your are bored and wonder how you are connected to the world.

 

[mki.rahulb30]

Will check it out. Thanks!