Your IP or MAC address appears wrong because of a minor mismatch in digits during conversion or display.
Your IP or MAC address appears wrong because of a minor mismatch in digits during conversion or display.
I realize I'm missing some details. This motherboard is an EVGA X299 Dark with two Ethernet ports. I’m using a Linksys WRT 1900 Wi-Fi router and a Linksys WRT 8 Gigabit switch. The router lets me monitor connected devices via my phone app. While checking the list, I saw a small mismatch in IP and MAC addresses between the app and my PC settings. My Ethernet-connected computer shows a different MAC than what the app displays. During gaming sessions—like World of Warships—I notice my boat freezes for a few seconds while everything else runs normally. The boat eventually resumes its path. My internet speed is fiber, consistently 103-115 Mbps. I also use a bridge from the same ISP, but after they replaced the router with the bridge, the issue persists. Other devices in the house work fine. Could this address mismatch be causing the lag? Is there a way to fix it? Updated September 12, 2022 by Rocketdog2112
These are MAC addresses, not IPs. Your device gets its IP from the router it’s linked to based on its MAC. Remember, each connection type—wired or wireless—has a unique MAC, sometimes differing by just one character. How your computer links up with the router matters, and where you check for MACs is important. Screenshots would be useful; don’t hide local IPs in any of these private ranges since they belong to your network. Make sure you exclude any addresses outside these ranges to avoid accidentally revealing your public IP to your ISP.
Class A: 10.0.0.0 — 10.255.255.255
Class B: 172.16.0.0 — 172.31.255.255
Class C: 192.168.0.0 — 192.168.255.255
They are MAC addresses. I realized they were mixed up. My motherboard has two Ethernet ports. (xxx.C8 & xxx.C9) The MAC addresses appeared in the Windows network and internet settings on my desktop as well as in the Linksys app. As I mentioned earlier, my desktop is connected via a hard-wired CAT 6 Ethernet from the bridge to the router and then to the computer. The network and desktop functioned well before the bridge was replaced. After the change, the network worked fine for most devices except my desktop. I can't disable the bridge because it converts fiber to Ethernet, just like I can't connect the fiber directly to the router. Can I bypass the router and connect my computer directly to the bridge? Maybe. But then I would lose all wireless connections and some Ethernet-connected devices due to port issues. I might try it for testing.