Bhavbhuti
Try www.whatismyip.org . This one returns by the way a clean plage with only the ip, so you don't have to parse. As for the Cable Internet, do you know for sure your machine has a unique IP when connected? Do you have any way to retrieve this address manually?
Jaime

>Hi Jaime
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>In essence your help is working in this matter. But just in case you have a better idea. The IP returned by the site for a Cable Internet is that of the fornt-end sort of thing for the ISP and not my machine, any ideas.