XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Retirednoguilt  wrote:   
   > On 12/19/2025 8:40 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > > Retirednoguilt  wrote:   
   > > [...]   
   > >>  Paul,  I'm an end user and your reply lost me.  OK, given that "the WAN   
   > >> address is what the Internet sees for your three machines", I'll modify   
   > >> my question to:  what controls what is seen as my WAN address, my   
   > >> device, the router providing the connection to my device, or the ISP?   
   > >   
   > >   To keep things simple, the answer is "the ISP".   
   > >   
   > >   Your ISP assigns 'your' (probably temporary) IP address to the WAN   
   > > side of your router. So the outside world - i.e. in this case the   
   > > website - sees an IP address which is assigned to you by your ISP.   
   > >   
   > >   The spefic IP address will probably change over time, as it (probably)   
   > > is a dynamic IP address, but whatever the current IP address is, it will   
   > > always be in the range of IP addresses which is assigned to your ISP.   
   > >   
   > >   As to the geolocating/geofencing issue, if I use whatismyipaddress.com,   
   > > it reports the city of my ISP, but not my city, which is probably some   
   > > 60km from the ISP's city. But it correctly reports the country (The   
   > > Netherlands), so a website could do geolocation or/and geofencing based   
   > > on that.   
   > >   
   > >> I assume that since the W in WAN stands for "wide", it's probably not my   
   > >> device.   
   > >   
   > >   WAN means Wide Area Network as opposed to LAN (Local Area Network), so   
   > > simply put, your LAN is your in-house network and the WAN is the   
   > > outside world.   
   > >   
   > >   I hope this helps.   
   > >   
   > > [...]   
   >   
   > It does, tremendously.  Thank you!   
      
     You're very welcome and I'm glad - and somewhat proud - that it   
   helped you.   
      
     I've been in (technical) customer support for most of my professional   
   life, where I often had to explain technical matters to non-techincal   
   people, who were often experts in *their* field of work, just like you   
   and me in this case. So bridging worlds has become somewhat of a second   
   nature and apparently I've not (yet? :-)) lost my touch.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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