Received following message: "Another device on the network is using your computer's IP address(xxx.xxx.x.x). How do I determine the other device? How serious this problem? How do you change IP addresses?

Received the following message "Another device on the network is using your computer's IP address(xxx.xxx.x.x). Try connecting later. If you continue to have problems, change the IP address of this computer or the IP address of the other device. Contact the network administrator if you need more information." How do I determine the other device using my IP address? How serious this problem? How do you change IP addresses?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 15, 2015 4:44 PM

20 replies

Oct 13, 2015 4:41 PM in response to Barney-15E

Woke up and saw this message on my laptop at 1 am tonight, and wondered if my neighbor's kids (computer nerds) were up to something...

But one of my kids then came up from the living room, told me the fuses had blown three times - which includes the fuse that the WIFI is on.

He'd connected a new electrical heater in the room, which blew the fuse whenever the other electrical heater in the same room switched on.

... Or so I think, after searching the net on the topic.

😉

Nay

Level 1

9 points

Oct 15, 2016 10:27 PM in response to sunigam6

Thank you, this fix is great and worked very well. Thank you for being able to help, much appreciated.

muzhimu

Level 1

0 points

Dec 30, 2016 10:45 PM in response to sunigam6

how can find my ip address without the remote?

Eric Root

Level 10

685,293 points

Dec 31, 2016 8:41 AM in response to muzhimu

System Preferences/Network - if using Wi-Fi, click Advanced, then TCP/IP.

Apr 24, 2017 11:06 AM in response to sunigam6

HI can you help me please

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Received following message: "Another device on the network is using your computer's IP address(xxx.xxx.x.x). How do I determine the other device? How serious this problem? How do you change IP addresses?