Help - Router Firmware page issues
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Solved by Oshino Shinobu,
According to whatsmyip.org, its the exact same IP Address that is showing up under my brother's ethernet profile
It doesn't matter. Local IPs and WAN IPs are completely separate. Him setting his local IP to the same as the WAN IP isn't going to make his connection faster or better in any way, as data packets are going to have to go through NAT anyway. If anything, it's more likely to cause him problems.
I would advise him to just change it to DHCP, or a static IP other than the WAN IP, as if he screenshots something with his local IP, people are also going to have your WAN IP. Showing your local IP is normally not a problem, but if it is the same as the WAN IP, it can be dangerous.
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