2 Different IP Addresses

[White_Widow]

Hi

I want to set up 2 different computers in my house to have 2 different ip addresses as me and my brother both have a xbox and ps3and they clash if we are both online.

I have been told I can buy a broadband switch and set up 2 separate internet connections with 2 different routers.

Could someone please explain this to me or tell me a better way?

Thank you

 

[tolien]

They told you a load of rubbish. You'd need two routers and two connections, but a switch wouldn't be much use to you. You'd also need to phone lines (or one connection with Virgin Media cable and one with another ISP).

 

[Dist]

Multiple IPs are usualy provided by buisness packages, which are not always available to individual customers. As tolien said, the other way to get multiple IP addresses is to sign up to multiple ISPs, which would require multiple phone lines, or a cable line and a phone line etc, all of which cost more money.

 

[Bakedgoods]

I'm not understanding why you need two IP addresses at all...

What do you mean they are clashing? How are they connected to the internet? If you've got a typical router at home and they are both plugged into that then there shouldn't be an issue, unless you have manually assigned the Xbox and the PS3 the same IP address.

 

[howler]

surely you must have some kind of NAT service

you don't need to give those devices public IP's,give them private IP's and let the router handle the rest

 

[Bakedgoods]

surely you must have some kind of NAT service

you don't need to give those devices public IP's,give them private IP's and let the router handle the rest

Aye that's exactly what i'm thinking.

All I can imagine is that he had given them both the same private IP addresses or something.

 

[tolien]

Some games get tetchy at two connections from the "one IP". I guess it would mess with port forwarding too, though I doubt it would be enough justification for a /29 (anything less would either be pointless or wouldn't give you enough usable IPs)...

 

[howler]

really?

Thats bizarre I would have thought with the games and consoles aimed at the home user they would have anticapted NAT being used

 

[FrenchTart]

The majority do these days but there's still the odd one or two that don't like it sadly.