What Is My IP Address

Your public IP address is shown below, along with the network it belongs to and the details your browser sends to every website you visit.

This is the address the internet sees — not the one your device shows in its network settings, which is almost always a private address behind your router.

How it works

Your device has two addresses. The private one — typically 192.168.x.x — is assigned by your router and only meaningful inside your own network. The public one is assigned by your internet provider and is what every server you connect to actually sees. Usually one public address is shared by every device in the building.

What your address does and does not reveal:

• It reveals your provider and roughly your country. That much is reliable.
• It does not reveal your identity or precise location. Only your ISP can link an address to a subscriber, and only under legal process. Any site claiming to show your street address from your IP is guessing.
• It usually changes. Most home connections get a dynamic address that changes on reconnection. A static address is normally a paid option, and is what you need to run a server or use IP allowlisting.

If you see an IPv6 address, your connection supports the newer protocol — now the default on most mobile networks. IPv6 addresses are commonly unique to a single device rather than shared across a household, which has real privacy implications: it makes a device easier to track across sites than a shared IPv4 address does.

The browser details shown are sent automatically with every request. They are also the basis of fingerprinting — the combination of user agent, language, timezone and other attributes is often unique enough to identify a browser without any cookie at all, which is why browsers have been reducing what they disclose.

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