XP: What Is My IP Address?
Contributed by AlexTheBeast 
Tagged: Windows Here are a few ways you can detect your IP address.
I frequently get asked how a user can determine what his or her IP address is. This is getting more difficult to explain now that routers/firewalls are becoming more and more commonplace.
In playing games or getting connections on the internet, your important IP address is the one that is detectable by the entire internet. It is typically the IP address of the first device that connects your network to the internet. This will be the IP address that is reported by a website such as whatismyip.com. Logging into your router or firewall and viewing its IP will also often give you this information.
A computer behind a router or firewall will have an different private IP address that the public internet couldn’t care less about. These will typically start with 192.168.XXX.XXX. You can detect this IP address by the following methods:
- Command Prompt —
[list]1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type in cmd
4. In the command window type ipconfig /all
5. The results will show your IP address and associated information
Network Connection Icon –
- 1. Right click the network connection icon in the system tray
2. Select Status from the context menu that opens
3. Select the Support tab
4. The IP address is displayed
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asshole said on November 16, 2008
wow i didnt know that…..that picture of the chef is cute….
Fixed Gear said on March 26, 2009
Thanks for the clarification! Great article. I needed to know this for blocking my own internal traffic from google analytics. And obviously I want to block the larger IP that the router has not the internal ip of my laptop. Graci!
Seini said on January 14, 2012
Excellent thank you, I already had the IP address but wanted to confirm it and this did. Useful for countering false reports that our IP address is responsible for spamming and therefore having our emails blocked.