How to find my IP address?
Finding your IP address is easy. We'll show you two different ways to check your IP address.
If your computer is connected to Internet via a proxy server or a broadband modem/router, you should know that there are two IP addresses that are involved in enabling your computer to connect to Internet. The first IP address will be a local IP address that is assigned to your computer by the router or DSL modem and second IP address, which would be public, will be assigned to the proxy server or your broadband router by your ISP.
So, all you have to do is run through the following steps to find both the IP addresses.
- Click the Start menu button on the Windows taskbar and click Run on this menu.
- On the run prompt, type CMD and hit enter. A command prompt window will appear on the screen.
- In the command prompt window, type 'ipconfig' (without the quotes) and hit enter.
- In the output the command you ran in previous step, look for the numbers against IP address. That's your IP address.
If you find more than one IP address in the output, it could be because of multiple network cards your computer has or you have installed some software such as VMware that will create virtual network cards. In any case, 'Local Area Connection' is the default connection, so that IP is what you should look at. For wireless adapters, the default connection name would be 'Wireless Network Connection'.
Wasn't that easy? We told you it's easy to find your IP address. But what if you are behind a firewall, proxy server or router and want to know what the Internet IP address is? That's easy too!
To find what public IP address your router has been assigned by your ISP, open the control panel or the admin panel of your router and check the IP address page. You will see both public IP address and your router's local IP address on the same page. This may vary from router to router depending on their make and models, but admin panel has this information.
In other cases, use check your IP address page to see your public IP address.