I started a basic forum over on www.all-forums.net for a local group and it seems that myself and other users have the same IP address of 62.252.128.7

Now am I missing something? How can we have the same ip address while on at the same time? We live 2 miles from one another with the same isp if that helps explain it.

Thats not even any of our ip addresses!!

It makes polls impossible.

Because that's a transparent web cache. 62.252.128.7 is cache4-renf.server.ntli.net

I'm sorry, I don't know what that means!

Am I stuck with it?

NTL have a machine between you and the internet caching web pages. It's to save bandwidth since chances are that you'll be accessing a lot of pages that other people have recently looked at. Since they'll be most likely the same, it can save a copy and then just give you that instead. Not sure how to bypass it though as I don't use NTL...

Don't think there is much you can do apart from try and use another cache. It's only sidestepping the problem since you'll be stuck with another IP address. There's a page about it here.

Thanks for the info. I have changed the settings to allow only registered members to vote in polls. It now tracks User IDs as opposed to IP addresses