Wow... almost 5 yrs with @home and this happens.

[Looney]

My ip got hijacked! Or according to @home tech support it did. Started a couple of days ago when my Internet connection was down, but all the lights on my modem were correctly on. Called them up, and they told me they don't see a problem, and infact they see my computer is ok... so when they told me to power cycle the modem, i said ok... then after about 20 secs he asked me, 'did you unplug the modem yet?'... and i told him yup, and he said, 'that's odd... i can still see your computer.' So eventually he came to the conclusion that somebody else was using my IP.

Well, i don't know what's the update on that (such as whether they caught the offender or not)... but they assigned me a new IP, so i'm happy. Just an odd experience i thought i'll share with you guys.

 

[Iron Woode]

This happened to me last week. What probably happened was @home sub divided your node or possibly someone else's and gave them your ip address with out telling you. Thats what happened to me. My new ip address was being hogged by a guy with an old router that required a static ip address. He was refusing to release the address to me, so i had to spend a lot of time bitching to @home about it. My service was down 5 days. They finally had to call the guy and threaten to cancel his service if he didn't release the address. It works fine now. I got a rebate aswell.

 

[PrinceofWands]

It is possible it occured during a node split, but it's much more frequent that someone truly steals it...wants another IP without paying for it and works through the possible addresses till one works. This usually only works if they're on the same node as you, but occasionally it's something else. Also, if someone had trule 'stolen' your IP you would have received an IP conflict error message. If you didn't get that message, it wasn't a stolen IP. The tech could have been looking at the wrong computer, there could have been a screwed up error at the headend, I can think of a quite a few possibilities...but as long as it's working now no biggie.

 

[dbwillis]

I came across an app from download.com called angry IP, I ran the scan on my IP range (24.x.x.1 to 24.x.x.255) and it listed all the computer names (like c1428450-a.state.home.com) and the corresponding IP address.
I saw many IP's right before and after mine, I would assume that I could change my computer name to c1428450-a and then Id get that persons IP if there PC wasnt on, right?
--I never tried though

 

[PrinceofWands]

semi-correct....with the other persons computer name you would likely obtain their IP address through DHCP. If their computer was on, it would be followed by an IP conflict message. However, you usually can not get any more connection than obtaining the DHCP reply unless you are on the same node as the other person, as the information regarding routing is statically stored. At least this is how I understand it.

 

[Looney]

Er, where would i have gotten the IP conflict message? In my browser? Anyways, when i did a ipconfig /all, the IP i got was 164.x.x.x, which according to @home, was the server that assigns the IP, and it couldn't resolve mine for me (i had my settings to automatically detect my IP).

Well, it is working now... but i received a new IP. I'm happy though, i just thought it was wierd that somebody would steal it.

And something i've noticed with @home tech support now... they're a lot better! Not only did they not freak out when they found out i was using a router (they use to tell me plainly that they couldn't help me... now at least they were offering some advice), and they finally support Win2k users.