IP is short for "Internet Protocol." It's a way of assigning addresses to a computer so that it is unique, just like your home address.
The address is actually a numerical representation of a binary value. In an eight-bit world, there are 256 possible numbers, which range from zero (0) through 255. Since bits are binary, they can have only two values, 0 and 1. Thus, an eight-bit value would be anything from
00000000 through 11111111
An IP address is a "dotted quad," which is a way of saying that it's four eight-bit addresses. Since putting these together in a string of zeros and ones would result in an "eye chart" of 32 characters, the binary values are converted to decimal characters separated by periods.
This is only scratching the surface. There are a lot of articles on the 'Net that discuss IP addressing. It's a very deep subject, and there are engineers who specialize in designing IP networks for efficiency, speed and usage.
Your computer gets an IP address (not your monitor but I know what you mean). If it uses dialup, it gets one from your ISP. If it goes to the internet through broadband, your modem or router gets the IP from your ISP. Your router or modem has another IP as well so it can talk to your computer. Your computer gets an IP from your modem or router or you manually give it one that is in the same group as your modem or router. The IP addresses that are in the same group are Local or LAN addresses. The one from your ISP is a WAN address.
Modem or router address: what you type into a browser to be able to log in and make changes to it.
Computer IP address: Open command prompt and type ipconfig and then press Enter. It will show up in there.
LAN addresses will usually start 192.168 and then have two more dots and numbers such as 192.168.1.5 - the modem usually has 192.168.1.1.
Routers, modems and computers in the same IP group can usually work together fairly easily.
The addresses are used in the same way the postal service uses your home address; so computers and devices know where to send things. How does a site know to send it to YOUR computer and not someone else's that has 192.168.1.5, just like your computer? You want to visit a website. You tell your computer, by typing in a web address, for example. Your computer tells your modem. The modem makes a note of what's been asked for and the IP address of the computer that asked. The modem uses its' WAN address and asks the web site for the information and gives its' WAN address to the site. The site sends the information to the modem's WAN address. The modem now switches back to its' LAN address so it can talk to your computer. It looks up which IP address is needed for the computer that asked for that information and sends it there.
Looks like you knows nothing about IP address.So I strongly suggest you to go to Google and search for it to know about IP address from the beginning.Or else you get from confusion to the confusion .
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To learn more about IP addressing and power of IP address tracking visit any site specialized in that stuff. Good start are IP trackers from:
http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/
http://www.find-ip-address.org/
IP is short for "Internet Protocol." It's a way of assigning addresses to a computer so that it is unique, just like your home address.
The address is actually a numerical representation of a binary value. In an eight-bit world, there are 256 possible numbers, which range from zero (0) through 255. Since bits are binary, they can have only two values, 0 and 1. Thus, an eight-bit value would be anything from
00000000 through 11111111
An IP address is a "dotted quad," which is a way of saying that it's four eight-bit addresses. Since putting these together in a string of zeros and ones would result in an "eye chart" of 32 characters, the binary values are converted to decimal characters separated by periods.
This is only scratching the surface. There are a lot of articles on the 'Net that discuss IP addressing. It's a very deep subject, and there are engineers who specialize in designing IP networks for efficiency, speed and usage.
Can be assigned to both.
Your computer gets an IP address (not your monitor but I know what you mean). If it uses dialup, it gets one from your ISP. If it goes to the internet through broadband, your modem or router gets the IP from your ISP. Your router or modem has another IP as well so it can talk to your computer. Your computer gets an IP from your modem or router or you manually give it one that is in the same group as your modem or router. The IP addresses that are in the same group are Local or LAN addresses. The one from your ISP is a WAN address.
Internet IP address:
http://whatismyip.com/
Modem or router address: what you type into a browser to be able to log in and make changes to it.
Computer IP address: Open command prompt and type ipconfig and then press Enter. It will show up in there.
LAN addresses will usually start 192.168 and then have two more dots and numbers such as 192.168.1.5 - the modem usually has 192.168.1.1.
Routers, modems and computers in the same IP group can usually work together fairly easily.
The addresses are used in the same way the postal service uses your home address; so computers and devices know where to send things. How does a site know to send it to YOUR computer and not someone else's that has 192.168.1.5, just like your computer? You want to visit a website. You tell your computer, by typing in a web address, for example. Your computer tells your modem. The modem makes a note of what's been asked for and the IP address of the computer that asked. The modem uses its' WAN address and asks the web site for the information and gives its' WAN address to the site. The site sends the information to the modem's WAN address. The modem now switches back to its' LAN address so it can talk to your computer. It looks up which IP address is needed for the computer that asked for that information and sends it there.
Looks like you knows nothing about IP address.So I strongly suggest you to go to Google and search for it to know about IP address from the beginning.Or else you get from confusion to the confusion .
it's your computer's adress. just like a house's adress.