How can I find my computer's IP address?

Question

Plus, I would like to know if you have two computers -- one wireless and the other directly connected, do they both function off of the same IP address or do they have separate IP numbers?

Answer 1

http://www.whatismyip.com



If the two computers share a net connection they'll have the same IP adress.

Answer 2

Every computer, printer, router etc on the same network segment must have a unique address. To check yours go to start/run and type in cmd and enter. Then type in ipconfig and enter. The top number is your IP address, below this is the netmask which groups your machines together. At the bottom is the default gateway (router) address. You will see the numbers are similar, the last number is the only difference on a small network (up to 254 machines). If you attempt to change the ip address and it conflicts with another machine you will shut yourself out of the network. These addresses are private addresses, and can not be used on the Internet. The router normally sets this address on a broadband connected site. The router also has a public address in a completely different range, this will be a public address, and is set by the ISP.

Answer 3

Viewing Your Computer’s IP Information



Begin by first clicking on the Start Button.



Then click on the Run Icon, which will open up the Run Menu for you.



Locate the white area of the screen next to the word Open: in the Run Menu.



Now type in the word COMMAND and click on the OK button at the bottom of the screen.



For Windows XP, you can also type in the word CMD and then click on the OK button.



This will launch the Window’s DOS Prompt Command Window for you.



Now using your keyboard, type IPCONFIG /ALL and press the Enter key.



Windows will now display the IP Configuration Information for your computer.



When finished, simply close the Command Prompt window to return back to Windows.



Note: This Technical Brief Will Work For All Operating Systems Including Windows XP.

Answer 4

Use "ipconfig", as others have suggested, to find each machine's IP address.



The answer to your second question depends on specifics that you didn't mention, but let's assume that you have both machines connected to, say, a wired/wireless router, which is connected to your broadband modem.



In that case, your router has an IP address assigned to it by your broadband provider, and it will use Network Address Translation to translate each of your two machines' IP addresses so that it appears that all of your network traffic is coming from that one assigned IP address.



Among other things, this means that the address you see if you go to whatismyip.com will be the one assigned by your provider, and the ones you see when you run "ipconfig" will be the ones assigned to each machine by (probably) the router itself.

Answer 5

Click on Start and then Run.

Type cmd.

In command prompt type ipconfig

C:>ipconfig

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix. :

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.30

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

IP address of PC is 192.168.1.30

You can’t have 2 same IP address. You have to choose different IP addresses in same subnet.

To change IP address, right click on My Network Places and choose Properties.

Right click and Properties on Local Area Connection (Network card you are using).

Click Internet protocol TCP/IP and choose Properties.

Click Use the following IP address.

Enter IP address, subnet mask, default gateway (doesn’t needed on same subnet).

Choose close IP address for example 192.168.1.30 and 192.168.1.40 (if you have subnet mash 255.255.255.0)

Answer 6

Easy way go to command prompt. Thats Start, Run, type in CMD. You'll get a black screen. Type IPCONFIG all one word. There you will see a listing for your IP. Every computer on a network will have its own ip address.

Answer 7

I like to use internet frog. Just visit the site for info about your computer.

Answer 8

start - run - cmd - ipconfig - enter

Answer 9

http://www.ip-adress.com/