Hey guys

Was wondering if you guys could help me.

I was doing malware test on my comp using some software. I noticed the IP of my my devices was different from my home network.

After a while I realised it was just a different protocol (ip 4 I think) anyway I did a check on the IP (not really sure why)

All the devices are IPs in the USA (I am in the UK) and all of them have had abuse reports. Obviously I have never done anything dodgy so to speak. Am a little concerned at this though.

Why would all my devices be connected via USA? Some of them are tablets or firesticks. Would it simply be that Amazon or whoever routes the device via this IP and the abuse complaints are simply people that don't realise they have devices connected via Amazon or whoever?

Anyway any help would be appreciated just want to make sure I don't have anything to worry about.

Apologies for the noob questions

Thanks

Are you getting mixed up between local ip's and external ip's? If you google "what is my IP" that'll tell you your IP address.

Each device is assigned a local IP by your router (usually 192.168.x.x). That's just for the router to keep track of each device and its traffic, websites don't see that.

For a device to actually have a different IP address it would have to be using a different connection. Has someone set the firestick up with a vpn to use American Netflix maybe?

Hey

Thanks for answering I think I am on reflection actually.

Think it might be the routers one like you said.

In that case why are people reporting it as abusive when it can change really often or be used by any number of locations?

Where are you seeing reports that they're abusive? They are simply IP addresses within your local network. Frankly it doesn't matter what other people say about them. Pretty much everyone's network has the same address range. They're only visible to you.