[edit: ahhh, nobodied posted when I hit the reply button!! - SirDice is great though.]

First of all, with respect to all your courteous questions of late, you can find most all of this on google, but I'll help anyways. This is pretty simple once you understand it, so it shouldn't take much.


Internet addresses (IP addresses) are things that are bought and reserved by various companies. Your service provider probably bought and reserved all or some of the ip addresses starting wih 44.23.22. That is why you always use that first few numbers. Your service provider is letting you rent one of their reserved numbers. Like paying and reserving a seat at an ongoing broadway show, then renting it to somone.

You do have to use the IP address your service provider assigns you each time. If you change it, your service will probably get messed up. In reality, the acctualy IP is stored both at your service provider, and on your computer, but you probably can't change your assigned IP without disrupting service.

By adapter address, you probably mean MAC address(this woudn't apply to you, since you use a modem) It may mean your modem itself as seen by your operating system. Something like ppp1. Look both of these up on google. There are many clear explanations.

Same with subnet mask. Though if nothing you find on google clears this up for you, post again and I'll explain it.

Remember, while we do enjoy helping, it's expected that you do a quick search on google before taking advantage of help here.

- Good day. kudos for wanting to learn.

Jon.