How to find my IP address?
What is an IP address?
Your IP address is your computer or device’s location online. It’s where the internet can find you, and how it can identify you, essentially.The IP address is assigned to you by your ISP (Internet Service Provider).
Networking hardware needs to know this address in order to connect you to the internet, but it does this automatically, and it’s quite rare that you’ll need to know your IP address yourself.
There are two kinds of IP address.
External (or public) IP address. This is how the internet at large locates and contacts you; it is assigned to you by your ISP when you first go online, and can apply to a device or to an entire network that connects to the internet via a single point. This can appear in either IPv4 (four numbers separated by dots, for a total of around 8-12 digits) or IPv6 (eight numbers separated by digits, for around 30 digits) form.
Internal (or private, or local). This address is not disclosed to the internet – it’s only used within your home network, and applies to a single device. A group of offline computers linked on a private network would use internal IP addresses to talk to each other, and your Wi-Fi router will use internal IP addresses to speak to the various devices that connect to it. This will always be in IPv4 form (four numbers separated by dots) and will nearly always be 192.168.X.X, with the Xs varying from device to device.
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