Re: Personal Data and Security

Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:

In article jollyroger-5DDBDE.20390621082009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jolly Roger
at jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 8/21/09 9:39 PM:

In article <C6B4B38F.43D9B%nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>,
Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:

In article jollyroger-14C0DF.15583321082009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jolly
Roger at jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 8/21/09 4:58 PM:

In article <C6B4664F.43D6B%nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>,
Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:

I went to Netgear's site to change the
security from WEP to WPA

Stop saying this. It's not true. What you actually did was log into your
router's configuration web page.

Are you saying that every Netgear router has it's own, individual web page
located at the Netgear site?

No. Your router is simply resolving the domain name to the router's
internal IP address. Your web browser is not going out to the internet
at all.

The fact that all Netgear routers have the same 192.168.1.1 address
therefore has nothing to do with each one's actual online identity?

All IP addresses that start with 10, or 172.16 through 172.31, or
192.168 are reserved for use on private networks and cannot be used over
the Internet.

Almost every home computer user in the world with a broadband connection
has a router which is doing Network Address Translation (NAT for short).
With this mechanism, the router and all computers on your network are
using private addresses in one of the above ranges, and the outside
Internet connection is using a single public IP address, which is
assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider.

The router is responsible for translating between the multiple internal
addresses and the single public address.

Your Netgear router is using 192.168.1.1 as its internal private
address. So are most of the other Netgear routers in the world (unless
the owner has changed their local network addressing scheme). So are
many other brands of routers. (192.168.0.1 is also common, as is
10.0.0.1.)

There will be millions of devices in the world using 192.168.1.1.

--
David Empson
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
.

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