Hi Jay,
You have a couple of issues to overcome for this to work. First if you
have a router between your internet connection and the PC, you may have
to connect the PC directly to the cable modem in order to get an address
that is reachable from the internet. Depending on the router you have
it may be able to forward the address to the PC or clone the mac (
hardware address) of the PC and make the connection for you. Check the
documentation on your router. When you are using the basic setup for a
home version router ( with or without WiFi) is provides a private
/non-routable IP address. Usually these addresses start with
192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x. These work great for your local network and
local DHCP server but can't be reached from the internet.
The second issue is getting your website set up with a DNS name. There
are a number of services that will register a domain name for you and
work with a Dynamic address. They update the ip address associated with
your domain name very frequently so you can be found. This site
provides that service. http://www.no-ip.com/
Please note, I haven't used this company so I can't recommend their
service The URL is included as an example of the service you will
need. You will have to do some research to select a provider.
I hope this helps.
Bruce Herbach
Jay Erlebacher wrote:
Hi,
Perhaps someone can advise me on how to set up IWP using a host
computer with cable modem access to the web.
The IP address that is in my IWP set up doesn't connect to my IWP page
from my friends' computers. I have a feeling that this is the IP of my
router.
Would I be right in assuming that I have a problem because I have a
dynamic rather than a fixed IP address?
Am I therefore unable to use IWP?
Is there a workaround?
Jay Erlebacher
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