isp address

[spirelli]

I am considering of using ISP address to block myself from being counted.

1. How can I find out what my ISP address is?

2. I am with a poular Broadband provider in the UK. Does this meen that ALL users of this provider will be blocked?

Thanks for any answers!

[webado]

Originally Posted by spirelli

I am considering of using ISP address to block myself from being counted.

1. How can I find out what my ISP address is?

2. I am with a poular Broadband provider in the UK. Does this meen that ALL users of this provider will be blocked?

Thanks for any answers!

I think you mean to block your own IP address. At this time you cannot block by ISP yet, as far as I know.

You can see your IP address and other details echoed back to you on many sites, e.g. www.whatsmyip.net .

Your ISP assigns IP addresses to their users as they connect to the service. Depending on how it is done, users may have a fixed IP address or may be assigned a different one every time they connect to the net, good until they disconnect. Yet other ISP's (e.g. AOL) use a method of continually changing their user's IP address at each web access.

If your own IP address is fixed, then you can block your visits by specifying it in your project settings.

If your address is not fixed, then you'll be blocking yourself maybe for the current internet session, right after you set that, but not in later session where you'd be blocking somebody else who happened to be assigned the same Ip address (assuming they visited your site as well). Yes, it would be somebody using the same ISP as you (unless that IP address changes hands, as it were, since often ISP's reorganize their blocks of IP addresses).

[spirelli]

ahh, ok. thanks a lot for the explanation! I dod not know the difference between ISP and IP....

[webado]

Originally Posted by spirelli

ahh, ok. thanks a lot for the explanation! I dod not know the difference between ISP and IP....

You're welcome.

ISP = Internet Service Provider

IP address = Internet Protocol address