Why Did My IP Temporarily Change From Public To Private?
Something strange happened on January 16th, 2024, and no one at Cox customer care has an explanation. I run a small online business and make affiliate commissions from about two dozen different advertisers. Every morning, I run traffic reports to see how much traffic we sent to advertisers, and to run these reports, I login to each of the advertisers' different admin websites. A few days ago, I was poking around one of my advertiser's admin sites and clicked on an option to view my login history to the site. The page comes up and shows me every one of my logins, including the date, the time, and the IP address. I scrolled back a couple pages after seeing my same IP dozens of times for the last several weeks, but then, on just one of my logins on just one day, Jan 16., the IP that was listed is NOT my IP (my Cox IP was showing up on every single other login every single day before and after Jan 16.). I know this was my login because the time stamp was in fact when I logged in, but again, the IP wasn't mine. This is the IP that showed up as being me: 242.13.205.41 So I did a lookup on that IP, and it says it's a "private" or "reserved" IP that isn't part of Cox. What's also strange is that at the time I logged into this advertiser's page, I was also logging into about 20 other advertiser's admins pages in various tabs, since I login to all of them within a couple seconds of each other when I'm doing my daily traffic reports. When checking my login history on ALL the other advertiser sites, they all show my login at that Jan. 16 date/time as my regular IP that I recognize, not the weird private one. So, this was something that happened with the one connection on the one site, and I don't know why I would've been rerouted and/or recognized as having a private IP, just by them? My worst fear is that this was some sort of hack that I encountered upon landing on this one advertiser's site, but if anyone has a less creepy theory, I'd be very appreciative. Thanks!I'm in Las Vegas and pulling an IP address from Cox in Naperville Illinois. Why?
Was at a friend's house today relocating his CenturyLink modem and when we tried to run a speed test, it was trying to connect to Wichita, KS. I got home and the same thing was happening to me. I then noticed a 50.x.x.x IP address which is in Illinois. This is the first time I've ever been assigned an IP address NOT from Las Vegas (where I'm at). I contacted support and they of course blamed my "third party modem" that I've been using for years and suggested I get Complete Care for an extra $10/mo so they can maybe fix their DHCP servers? I'm not sure how my modem could decide to pull an IP address from the midwest. No, I'm not using a VPN and I'm on a Netgear CM1000 that apparently has the power to pull IP address from anywhere in the US.
Trying to reset my WAN IP address in 2021 and get a new IP
Was doing some research and found that my IP address hadn't changed in almost 30 days - very worrisome for security and privacy reasons. I'm a RESIDENTIAL subscriber, not a business subscriber so I shouldn't have a static IP assigned to me at all times. I've been trying to reset my IP address by rebooting my Internet modem - no dice. I've left it unplugged and not powered for 5-12 hours - still same IP. Did Cox suddenly stop doing Dynamic IP configs? Are all customers just static now? I tried calling technical support about this and they weren't of any help, totally incompetent. Are any Cox Communications technical support personnel able to verify or assist with my concerns? I do NOT want to retain the same public WAN IP address for any longer than 2 or 3 weeks. That's insane. Thanks in advance.
2nd router address on single SSID?
I am having a problem where a few of my devices do not have web connectivity over Wi-Fi when most of the rest do. I notice all the devices that have a connectivity issue show a router address of 192.168.48.1 and the device have an IP address of 192.168.48.xxx. However, the working devices are point to 192.168.0.1, which is the correct address I see when I log into the gateway. It seems like the Cox equipment has a second router that does not fully connect to the web. I also see that sometimes my iPhone starts with a correct IP address and then it changes in an hour or two to a bad address. One final complexity is my phone still connects to Apple Music and is able to stream music with the 'bad' IP address, but most other apps have not connectivity. I can manually enter a correct IP address but would like to understand what's going on. I've done all the possible resets and unplugging multiple times and even gotten a new gateway from Cox. The issue persists. Any help is appreciated.
How can I get a new public IP address for the paranomic gateway in my home?
Hi, I am a cox user in South California. Currently I am having issue with my cox network that it seems like the public IP of our gateway is blocked by Chinese firewall and I cannot visit some websites in China. I am wondering if there is an easy way to get a new IP address for my paranomic gateway. I've tried methods like reseting the gateway or unpluging my gateway at night for like 6-7 hours but I still got the same public IP address. I searched the forum and some threads suggested to unplug gateway for 24 hours, which is not so viable because there are other people in my home relying on the network. Are there any other way to get a new public IP address for my gateway? I'll appreciate it if you could help me. Thank you.
