Don’t Fret: Learn How to Easily Change Your IP Address With a VPN and These Other Simple Methods
Typically, you won't need to think about your IP address. However, you may need to change it occasionally, for example, if you're concerned about privacy or need to access region-restricted streaming content on streaming services, such as international Netflix libraries or BBC iPlayer outside the UK.
Your public IP address is similar to a physical street address. It's a unique string of numbers assigned by your internet provider to identify your home network to help it be "found". Alongside your home internet network's public IP address, each device on your home network -- like laptops, gaming consoles and smartphones -- has a private IP address, which is a unique IP address assigned by your router. Your router needs to know which devices connected to it so they can "talk." So there's a single public IP address shared among your internet-connected devices, but each of those gadgets has its own...
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