What Is My IP Address

Your address appears the moment the page loads. There are no settings and nothing to install.

1. Read your address in the large Your public IP address box. An IPv4 address is four numbers separated by dots, such as 203.0.113.42, while an IPv6 address is longer, with groups separated by colons.
2. Check the line under it, which says IPv4 or IPv6 and that the address is the one this website saw.
3. Look at the list below: Address type, Browser time zone, Language, Browser and Local time. The last four come from your browser, not from the network.
4. Press Copy details to copy the list for a support chat, a firewall request or a remote access setup.
5. After connecting to a VPN or switching from Wi-Fi to mobile data, reload the whole page. Refresh re-reads the browser lines only, because the address is fixed when the page loads.

This page does not look your address up on a third-party service. The server reads the address of the connection that requested the page and prints it for you. If a proxy or content network sits in front of the site, the server takes the original visitor address from the forwarding header, and if no valid address is found the box says Not detected. The tool shows no city, country or provider, only the address itself.

Every device on your home network also has a private address from the router, normally starting 192.168, 10. or 172.16 to 172.31. Those never leave the building. The router swaps them for one public address assigned by your provider, and that is the one shown here, shared by everyone on the same Wi-Fi. If your router's status page lists a different public address, or one beginning 100.64 to 100.127, your provider is probably sharing addresses between customers.

Many connections run both at once. The address shown is the one your browser used to reach this site, so another site may see the other kind.

A common reason to look up your address is an allow-list. A firewall or hosting panel may ask for a single address, often written with a suffix such as 203.0.113.42/32, where /32 means exactly that one IPv4 address. That works only while your provider keeps giving you the same address, so check it again before you troubleshoot a lock-out.

An IP address identifies a network connection, not a person or a house. Lookup databases can often place it in the right country and sometimes the right city, because providers allocate blocks by region, but the result is frequently the provider's equipment rather than your street, and mobile connections can appear far away.

• VPNs and proxies. They route your traffic through another server, so websites see that server's address. Reload this page after connecting to confirm the change. It checks the address web requests use; it does not test for DNS or other leaks.
• Dynamic addresses. Most home and mobile addresses change when the router reconnects or after a period the provider sets, so an allow-list for a server or database that relies on yours will break. Ask the provider about a static address if you need one.
• Where it is used. Websites, email systems and games log it for security checks and rate limits, which is why a shared address can occasionally be blocked.
• Other ways you leak location. Photos carry GPS data in their metadata, which the EXIF data remover strips.

For the rest of what a site learns from a visit, open the what is my browser page. If you need addresses for testing rather than your own, the random IP address generator makes sample ones, and a unique password from the strong password generator protects the router and VPN accounts that sit behind them.