How To Find Your IP Address
It's quick and easy, if you know where to look.
If you're looking for a quick answer to "What is my IP address?", a simple solution is to go to WhatIsMyIP.com and get it there. But the real answer is a little more complicated, because your devices don't have just one IP address. Every device on your network gets a private one from your router, and your whole home shares a single public one from your internet provider. The public address is the one websites see, while the private one only matters inside your own network.
Your router does the translating between the two, which is how a phone, a laptop and a TV can all browse at once while looking like a single address to the outside world. The router also hands out the private ones through a system called DHCP that usually lives inside the router itself. So...
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