What’s your IP Address?

All computer’s connected to the internet/ any network for that matter have a unique address with which they are identified on that network. This unique address is your Internet Protocol Address or IP Address. In this post, i shall describe the process of identifying your IP Address.

To know your IP Address follow the steps below

Click on Start and Type CMD at Run.
Enter IPCONFIG at the CMD prompt. This displays you the IP Related information specific to your Home/ ISP network.

However, if you are on a home/ office network, the information you obtained just now is not the real IP address… that means, this is not the IP Address with which the outside world identifies you, rather, this is the address with which your home/office network identifies you . In order to figure out the IP Address with which the outside world ( i.e. the world on internet) identifies you, visit the website www.ipaddressworld.com or http://whatismyipaddress.com/ . These websites can help you identify your IP Address.

Do note that this is the IP Address of the computer connecting to the internet. In case of home networks, it is the IP Address of the proxy server.

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Vaibhav