problem with router, both show up as the same ip

[mcrowe44]

I bought a Motorola br700 wired router. I never connected one before, so i may not of did it right. I connected the cable modem to the router, then router to pc1. Used the software, and it says it completed successfully. Internet worked fine. So I then connect pc2 via the ethernet port in slot 2 of the router, and ran the software on pc2 successfully. Internet worked. But I noticed on the face of the modem only the light on slot 1 lite up, nothing on slot 2 , dont know if its supposed to.

But I notice that both PCs show up as the same IP address, when checked on whatismyip.com . Shouldnt one of them end with something like .1, and the other with a .2 at the end. I want to connect to the same server, but cant if both have the same ip, is there something i did wrong, or a setting for me to check? I use Windows Me on both. Thanks

[Neo]

Your router splits up your SINGLE ip connection locally. Both of your computer's share the same ip to the interent, they have seperate LAN ip's, such as 192.168.*.* To find out each computer's IP, go to start - run and type in ipconfig. There it tells you your ip.

What I just described to you is known as NAT. In computer networking, network address translation (NAT, also known as network masquerading or IP-masquerading) is a technique in which the source and/or destination addresses of IP packets are rewritten as they pass through a router or firewall. It is most commonly used to enable multiple hosts on a private network to access the Internet using a single public IP address.

[QWERTY]

WhatismyIP.com tells you the IP address of the Router not your computers, so of course it will always be the same. Do a IPCONFIG or winipcfg on each machine to view the TCP/IP settings of each.

[Neo]

Yea, as I said.

And technically it shows your modem's IP.