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Is my IP changed or not? IP burger shows it did change, but that pop-up message confused me.
| Yes, your IP address has changed. Whatever IPBurger is showing you is the correct. This is the IP address your ISP has assigned to your modem and it is the IP facing the rest of the world.
Within your home network is your LAN. Every device within your LAN gets assigned an IP address in the 192.168.1.xxx range.
For example...
computer has 192.168.1.2
cell phone has 192.168.1.3
ps3 has 192.168.1.3
These are assigned DHCP via your wifi router. If you open a web browser on each of those devices and go to IPBurger, each device on your LAN will have the same external facing IP address. Quote:
''A device on the same network uses your computer's IP address''
| Going back to my example above, each of your devices are assigned IP address via DHCP protocol on your router.
I think you might have had your computer in sleep mode, and while you rebooted the router it assigned another device on your network w/ your computer's IP (because it was in sleep mode, your router doesn't detect it as active).
Short version to fix it...reboot router again and problem will clear itself when your wifi router reassigns IP addresses for your devices.
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