 birdfeedrPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-11
Warwick, RI
kudos:5 | How does HN assign IP addresses? A friend from WV asks: quote:
I change the default location preference in my yahoo pages and other news and weather sites to show my geographic location. But occasionally I go there and it's been changed to some place in Texas. I've never been to Texas. Someone is hijacking my pages. What do I do?
I know how geolocation works, also how browser preferences are saved, but was only able to speculate since the PC is in WV, and I'm not. So I have a couple of questions about how HughesNet does their IPs.
1. If a router is connected to the HN box, is there enough router activity to keep the connection alive without the laptop connected?
2. How long of inactivity does it take to force a disconnect?
3. When disconnected, how fast does it take to renew the connection between box and head end (not between router and laptop)?
4. What kind of churn is there in the WAN IP address assignments? (I'm spoiled by FiOS' almost static addressing where DHCP address will persist for months).
5. Are all Hughes Net addresses geolocated to Texas?
I tried to explain to her there is nothing going on there (pages not hijacked) but can be definitive if I know how HN works.
I have asked her to log dates and times and results from www.whatismyip.org. Pending her reply, I thought I'd ask here.
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tobicatPremium
join:2005-04-18
Tombstone, AZ | I suspect very strongly that the address in Texas is here gateway and not the ip assigned to the router.
Hughes has 1000's of IP's and they don't have any rhime or reqason as to what address is assigned to them although most are Germantown MD.
Depnding on her modem somewhere in the advanced pages is a list of about the last 100 IP's assigned to the modem.
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 grohgregDunno. Ask The Chief
join:2001-07-05
Dawson Springs, KY | reply to birdfeedr
1. The "HN box" doesn't need to have anything plugged into the WAN port to keep the connection alive. The modem has its own CPU that "calls home" regularly.
2. see above
3. see above
4. The modems WAN address is private, and fixed at 192.168.0.1
5. No
Tell your friend in WV that her issue has nothing to do with the modem, and everything to do with how she uses here browser and computer. When the user tells the browser where it's located (typically by ZIP code), the info is stored in a cookie. When the browser goes to a site that wants to know where you live, the browser feeds it that cookie. But if she has the browser set to clear cache - or has some cleanup utility active on her computer that does it - that cookie goes away. In the absence of the cookie, the side reads the IP address of the service provider. In this case, it appears that your friends HughesNet connection comes back to earth at a Texas gateway - and presumes that the requesting browser is in Texas.
But when she has that cookie on her computer, the website doesn't bother defaulting to the provider address. Have her do what's necessary so that the geoloco that she feeds to her computer isn't subsequently erased. Stop clearing cache, or at least clearing cookies. Or tell your cleanup utility to leave cookies alone. Some will even let you identify which specific cookies that you never want deleted.
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