How to Figure out your IP Address

IP address (Internet Protocol Address) is a unique numeric label assigned to devices such as computers, printers etc, which are part of the World Wide Web. There are a number of tasks which you can perform by determining the IP address of your computer, such as accessing it from a remote location. Figuring out the IP address of your computer is a very simple task and can be accomplished in a number of different ways. Here are a few possible steps you can take to figure out the IP address of your computer.

Instructions

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    You can use internet itself to figure out the IP address of your computer. Simply go to a search engine such as Google, type ‘my IP’ in the search bar and press the Enter key. Google will return the IP address which your computer is using.

    Remember that if your computer is a member of a Local Area Network, all the computers on your network would have the same IP address. In such a case, internal IP addresses are assigned by the DHCP server to differentiate computers from each other over the LAN.

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    You may want to know a possible way to determine the internal IP address of a computer which is part of a local area network. If that is the case, press the ‘Start’ button, click ‘Run’ and type ‘cmd’. Then click the ‘OK’ button and Window will open a Command Prompt window. Type ‘ipconfig’ and then press the Enter key. After a momentary pause, Windows will return your computer’s internal IP address.

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    Alternatively, there are a number of websites which can be used to determine your computer’s IP address. Go to a website which allows you to determine your computer’s IP address. Official website of ‘What Is My IP’, ‘Show Your IP’ and ‘Find Your IP Address’ are some of the websites which allow you to determine your computer’s IP address. For a list of such websites, simply go to Google, search for websites which will allow you to determine your IP address, go to one of these websites and you would be able to determine your computer’s IP address. As before, this IP address would be same for all the computers on a Local Area Network.

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