Instantly check your public IP and related network settings.
IP address checker is an online tool to help you to discover the IP address of the network you are using to access this site right now, based on IP Address & Location Lookup. Use this page when you need to discover your network information, or if you want to see whether you public IP has changed. Also, you will locate your ISP (Internet Service Provider) and your hostname (if any), as well as geographic information of your location based on the IP. Lastly, this tool allows you to see the timezone for the region you are accessing from.
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IP or Internet Protocol is a numerical (decimal or hexadecimal) identifier to allow communication between devices, and to differentiate them. Each IP Address sequence is unique and should refer to only one existing device. There are currently two know standards to label a device with an IP address: IPV4 and IPV6. IPV4 is a 32-bit address, and is the most used standard over the Internet. However, it has some drawbacks: the main limitation is the possible numerical combinations (2^32, about 4 billion). Although it seems like a large number, it is not so much when looking at the number of existing devices and the number of new devices per year. Instead of this, IPV6 provides more combinations and more advanced features than IPV4. IPV6 is a 128-bit hexadecimal address, more efficient and secure. It is likely that, over time, IPV6 adoption will continue to increase, becoming the main protocol.
The main reason is that sometimes the ISP rotates their available IP addresses. Every time you connect to Internet, ISP assigns an IP address to your device by taking one of them from its IP pool. For businesses it is possible to purchase a static IP address. For common ISP customers, the property of dynamic/static relies on the ISP structure and the available IP pool.