Table of Content
- 1 What is IP Address
- 2 Difference between IPv4 and IPv6
- 3 How to know my IP address
- 4 Method 2. Find your IP Address in Control Panel
- 5 Method3. Find My IP Address by Google Chrome
- 6 4. Find My IP Address through router
- 7 Closing words
- 8 Share
- 9 About Post Author
Today many of us are internet surfers. This internet is working on some unique codes which are known as IP. I am sure not every one of us known about IP Address?. Surely few of us only well known. it doesn’t mean that its difficult to know but before this we must have idea what is IP Address? Here we tell you what is IP Addresses and how you can know what is my IP addresses.?
What is IP Address
Internet Protocol Address in short knows as IP Addresses is a digital figures assigned to every PC network. This addresses are used for communication between the connectors. The first version of IPs developed first time in 1983 ARPANT(Advance Research Projects Agency Network) IP Addresses performed two major functions
The network interface or Hosting is a software develop for the purpose of interconnected computers through networking. one of them is a host or server while rest are linked PCs of network. This networking may be NOD ID, Port number or a unique NOD id which having own rights.
The other function of IP Addresses is addressing or familiarly known as locating. The locating or networking address are the addresses which is designed in a range of IP addresses and is used to communicate with all network devices on a particular network. The network address contains zeroes in the host portion of the IP addresses.
Though IP addresses are in software form but written in numeric figures like 172.19.168.1. Early version of IP Address is 32-bit written as IPv4 but with the increment in daily internet traffic its not possible to remain on 32-bit. With advancement latest version IPv6 introduced in mid 2000’s which is 256-bits and far more better than previous. These IP Addresses control by Internet Agency Number Authority (IANA) globally, sub-divided in five regions which is under supervision of Regional Internet Territories(RIR).
Difference between IPv4 and IPv6
An IPv4 addresses has a size of 32 bits, which limits the address space to 4294967296 (232) addresses. Of this number, some addresses are reserved for special purposes such as private networks (~18 million addresses) and multicast addressing (~270 million addresses).
IPv4 addresses are usually represented in dot-decimal notation, consisting of four decimal numbers, each ranging from 0 to 255, separated by dots, e.g., 172.16.254.1. Each part represents a group of 8 bits (an octet) of the address. In some cases of technical writing, IPv4 addresses may be presented in various hexadecimal, octal, or binary representations.
In IPv6, the address size was increased from 32 bits in IPv4 to 128 bits, thus providing up to 2128 (approximately 3.403×1038) addresses. This is deemed sufficient for the foreseeable future.
How to know my IP address
Now we come to our main topic how to know my IP address
There are several methods to know the what is my IP addresses and these are quite easy to know. These methods are given below one by one. You may know what is your IP addresses by follow any of them.
Method 1. Cmd command
This is the most common and familiar way to know my IP Address. Here you just need to do some steps are as follow
- Go to Run command on start menu as shown in image.
- Here write “cmd” and press enter as shown in image, a black screen window will open
- Here you see the C:\Users\guidebits>, write here “ipconfig” and press enter
- The both IP addresses IPv4 and IPv6 will show here
Method 2. Find your IP Address in Control Panel
1-if you are using windows 8 or windows 10 then simply go to the start menu
2- write there control panel and from here click on Network and internet setting
3- from Network and internet go to network internet sharing center
4- Network and sharing center and go to the change adopter setting
5- Here you will see Ethernet to which PC is connected
6- Now Click on connection Ethernet connection and click on Details. Here we can see my IP Addresses
Images with number are mentioning below
Method3. Find My IP Address by Google Chrome
Open Google Chrome. As shown in image
Go to www.google.com and there “What is my IP Addresses” and press Enter
Google Chrome will show result of your IP Addresses
but here google chrome will show you public IP Addresses. This Public IP Addresses assigned from local service provider
4. Find My IP Address through router
Step 1.Open admin page
Each router has separate digit number like 192.168.0.1 . This unique code assigned by internet service provider. So at first step write http://192.168.0.1. Here we will see admin page
Step2. login as administrator:
Every service providing company assigned username and password for router settings.
Here you find wanpage but its varry in some system if you are using a Netgear router with the Netgear Genie configuration software, click the Advanced tab.
Step 4. Look for “Internet Port” or “Internet IP Addresses.
You can find it on the Router Status, Internet, or WAN page. the IP addresses is 4 sets of digits, with up to three digits per set, such as 126.96.36.199.
- ISP assigned this IP addresses to your router . Most external IP addresses are dynamic, which means they change from time to time.
From above mentioned method we can know what is my IP Addresses. I hope it will be very helpful and its improve your knowledge.
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