Howdy Randall and WeatherCat fans,
With my Internet Satellite the only thing I get is a 192.168.1.1 which is my router ip I talk to both companies and you can't use DNS or no-ip with it without an personal address. all local networks have this 192.168.x.x and if you can tell me how it use it with my IP 192.168.1.253 Subnet 255.255.255.0 router 192.168.1.1 it would be great.I would have to give my IP 20.00 more a month to get an static IP
Not sure what is going on here, but that shouldn't EVER happen. I don't know how to make this simpler, but there are three groups of Internet addresses that are reserved for use on Intranets only. That means they cannot appear on the "outside." If you are assigned such an address, you effectively don't exist.
Now, normally computers on an intranet can still get access outside through a system called
IP Masquerading or more recently called
Network Address Translation (NAT). That means there is one address accessible to the world, and all your computers on the Intranet use that address. They "masquerade" as that public address one after the other taking turns to get outside. Since multitasking is very fast, you effectively have directly access to the outside Internet and so does everyone else in your house, (organization, etc.)
Now on the "inside" of your home router, indeed the address should be an intranet address. So my MacBook has the address of: 192.168.1.74. However, we have a Mac as our network server and it's outside address is: 76.21.52.29. In order to get "inside" it also has an "inside address" which is the key: 192.168.1.1.
Normally, your home router has this "outside address". You need to dig into your documentation, but it probably has one. With that, any of these dynamic DNS services will give access to your computer even if you have a home network using private addresses like most of us do. All you need to do is run the software on the computer on the inside of your network that you want to get "outside." The service will take care of the problem of making sure that the data gets to your computer even though the "dance" of IP Masquerading.
The alternative is that your satellite provider is really cheating and using Intranet addresses for their own network. Even so, these dynamic DNS services
*might* work. You'd have to try and see. However, either your ISP is telling lies or is running a sloppy network. You'll have to just do some experiments to find out which!
Aren't computers . . . . .
fun Cheers, Edouard