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==Usage==
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==Usage==
To use include the template:
:<code><nowiki>{{User shared IP address private}}</nowiki>⏎
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==Explanation==

If you share a home with another Wikipedian, you probably need to use this template, because in most homes the internet is provided by one [[internet service provider]] (ISP) who provides a box ([[residential gateway]]) to allow all the computers in the house to have access to the internet. All those computers in the dwelling that have access to the internet are connected to a [[private network]] with a [[Priva, one [[residential gateway]] (an electronic device) provides all computers in the house with Internet access from the same [[Inte  rnetwork#Common uses|local address]]. To access the internet service provider]]. Therefore, to the reoutsidential gateway [[Network address translation|translates]] those local addresses into one public [[Routing|routable]] [[IP address]]. So to the outside world your computer and all the other computers  world, all those computers have the same [[IP address]] (a unique numeric identifier on the Internet, akin theo a homuse appears to share an IP address.

NBddress in the real world). There are lots ofsome exceptions to the above which the more computer literate will know about, but those for whom "shared IP address" is just another piece of impenetrable computerese, your home computers will probably be using such a systemis is the dominant case.

==See also==
*{{tl|User shared IP address}}
*[[Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Related accounts]]
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