Another question for all you clever things out there!!!!

If someone had an IP address, say 200.83.123.89
if the IP address is drawn from a pool depending who the provider is, is it likely that it would be the last block of digits that change

I do have a good reason for asking honest!!!

its often per street, or area...

so if an ISP has block 200.83.*.* for the city (for example)
one area would get 200.83.123.*
another would get 200.83.124.*
another would get 200.83.125.*

etc... so it is possible, It all depends how the ISP hands out IP's

cheers!!! thats helpful

ISP's Use VLSM (Variable Length Subnet Mask).

This is a way of splitting a network down into segments small or large enough to stop wastage of IP addresses, so a large company may have 5 publice IP addresses and a small house will most likely have 1.

So it all depends on the way it is split by your ISP.

If you want more info Google VLSM...