MyIpAddress.com is Find your IP address
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myIPaddress.com: What is my IP address? How do I find my IP address?
Description
myIPaddress.com is a web site that automatically detects and displays your computer's IP address. This can be helpful for configuring a computer on a network, setting up communications software, or troubleshooting an Internet connection. Your Internet Service Provider or IT help desk may ask you to visit this site when you're having problems with your Internet connection.
Just as telephones are identified by unique telephone numbers, computers on the Internet are identified by unique series of numbers called "IP addresses". Each IP address consists of four numbers separated by three periods; for example, "192.168.1.1". Whenever your computer talks to another computer on the Internet -- such as when you visit a web site -- the name of the other computer must be converted into an IP address before communication can take place. (Incidentally, "IP" stands for "Internet Protocol".)
Most computers automatically get their IP addresses from the network; that is, they are "dynamically assigned" by an Internet Service Provider or IT department. The technologies that make this possible are "DHCP" ("Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol") and "PPP" ("Point to Point Protocol"). Fortunately, most modern operating systems handle DHCP and PPP without much effort on the part of the user.
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