[desmond5986]

one of my laptop was stolen last week and i have already reported to the police and they are investigating the IP address which i have provided to them because i have installed certain software that will inform me the IP address of the laptop every time the device connected to the internet.

Does any one know that is that possible to track the exactly location of the IP address ? Please show me how if that is possible way, thanks for your help.

 

[johnwill]

Actually, the IP address will not be the same, and it's impossible to trace that way. The thing that is constant is the MAC address of the network adapter, but that never gets outside the local network or the first router it encounters on the ISP network.

 

[desmond5986]

Thanks for your opinion, may i know that the MAC address that you have mentioned is from the router or the laptop ? what can we do if we get the MAC address ?

 

[johnwill]

You can't do anything. A router will strip the MAC address from the packets, so long before the MAC address gets anywhere outside the local network, it's gone. The IP address of 95% of all the computers in the world ends up being a private IP address, because they're behind a NAT router layer.

 

[cajun33]

On your new laptop get http://www.absolute.com/en/lojackforlaptops/home.aspx

 

[desmond5986]

Alright, something i would like to find out since a lot of people said that the IP address will be different every time the laptop reconnected to the router. I have checked back over 10 times and each time the laptop connected to the internet, the IP address that i see is the same one that i saw, it is the same IP.

I think it is depend on what kind of ISP that you are using, i guess there are a lot of people never turn the router on and off everyday and that's result you will have the same IP address.

 

[johnwill]

I can assure you that anyone that thinks that a computer connecting to a different network will have the same IP address as connecting to any other network has absolutely no understanding how TCP/IP functions. :smile: