What Is My Ip



What Is My Ip Address, and What is it Used For?

People often become curious when learning about IP addresses and then inevitably ask the question, "What is my IP?" Before answering this question, you first must understand what an Ip Address is and what its functions are in the world of networked computers. Every computer has an IP address and it is used to identify where a computer is from, and from where it is connecting to the Internet. Without an IP address, a computer cannot communicate to other computers over the Internet.

The best place to ask for your IP address is Google. If you type "whats my ip" or "what is My Ip Address" into Google, you are likely to get a few dozen pages that will do the hard work for you and tell you your IP address. If those searches don't work for you, try different variations, such as "what's my ip" or "whats my ip address." These are bound to give you the answers you are searching for if the first search terms did not give you what you wanted.

An IP address will look somewhat like a phone number. And like phone numbers for phones, anyone who uses a computer has an IP address for the Internet. Just like a phone can't communicate with other phones without a phone number, a computer can't communicate with other computers without an IP address. Your IP address will have four numbers that range from 0 to 255. In between each number will be a period. This number can be used to determine from where in the world you are connecting to the Internet. There are various websites to make this easier where you simply type in an IP address and it will pinpoint the IP on a map down to which city the computer is in.

Hopefully this article helped you answer your question, "What is my IP?" If you do the math on four numbers ranging from 0 to 255, you will realize that this leaves about four billion possibilities. With over six billion people now in the world, it is only a matter of time before the IP address format will have to change. This has already been a topic of discussion for governments and large Internet companies like Google, so a solution is in the works and I'm sure this problem will be solved before it becomes something to worry about.