I live in Mokena ,Ill with comcast homepage, One day I have Mokena the nxt 2 weeks I have Philadelphia. I change it and for a few browsers it's Mokena then it's Philadelphia
Only on firefox! Which I use the most. My Comcast home page of Mokena, Illinois (Chicago) comes up as Philadelphia for the last 2 months. I edit the zip code and Mokena comes up for maybe 1/2 day to a day. Then I'm back to Philadelphia. Approx 2 weeks ago, I had my normal Mokena page for about a week . Now I'm back to living in Philly again. Chicago is not Philly. Have you ever heard of this problem? It is only on Firefox. I talked to a Comcast rep and he never heard of it . HELP. Thanks Jim
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I haven't seen that happen with Comcast for a few years now, but I used to have it happen on fairly regular basis over the course of almost 2 years. Comcast's dynamic IP address scheme was connecting me thru Philly or Alexandria, VA at times instead of the local Elmhurst, IL connection point that was normally used. It happened when Comcast was doing maintenance and upgrades on the old AT&T systems the had acquired a few years before in the Chicago region. There were nights where my IP address was being changed as often as every 10 minutes - I would go to a different website and I would see info about stuff in Philly or Alexandria, VA and the next would be stuff local to the northern Chicago suburbs where I am located. I installed a little utility program which would pop-up a small windows with the new IP address when it was changed, to keep track of how often it was happening. I don't recall the name of that program, but it did keep a daily text log of each IP address change.
One other thing to keep in mind is that the "lease" for an IP address expires every 72 hours (3 days) and needs to be renewed automatically on Comcast's DHCP servers. If you wouldn't use Comcast internet service for more than 3 days, it is possible that your old IP address was reassigned to someone else and you would get a different one. But it should be from the bank of available local IP addresses, not one from halfway across the country.
When that happens, load this page and see where the website thinks you are located.
http://whatismyipaddress.com/
Keep track of the time and the IP address that appears - maybe that information will help a Comcast rep figure out why that is happening.
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I haven't seen that happen with Comcast for a few years now, but I used to have it happen on fairly regular basis over the course of almost 2 years. Comcast's dynamic IP address scheme was connecting me thru Philly or Alexandria, VA at times instead of the local Elmhurst, IL connection point that was normally used. It happened when Comcast was doing maintenance and upgrades on the old AT&T systems the had acquired a few years before in the Chicago region. There were nights where my IP address was being changed as often as every 10 minutes - I would go to a different website and I would see info about stuff in Philly or Alexandria, VA and the next would be stuff local to the northern Chicago suburbs where I am located. I installed a little utility program which would pop-up a small windows with the new IP address when it was changed, to keep track of how often it was happening. I don't recall the name of that program, but it did keep a daily text log of each IP address change.
One other thing to keep in mind is that the "lease" for an IP address expires every 72 hours (3 days) and needs to be renewed automatically on Comcast's DHCP servers. If you wouldn't use Comcast internet service for more than 3 days, it is possible that your old IP address was reassigned to someone else and you would get a different one. But it should be from the bank of available local IP addresses, not one from halfway across the country.
When that happens, load this page and see where the website thinks you are located.
http://whatismyipaddress.com/
Keep track of the time and the IP address that appears - maybe that information will help a Comcast rep figure out why that is happening.
Thanks edmeister. I appreciate your help. It sounds like a Comcast problem with the IP addresses. The problem really isn't the end of the world but after months, it does get annoying. In the next few days I will attack the problem and try and get a solution. Again, thanks. I have to go and get the stuff for tailgating for the Bears game tonight. Have a good day. Jim