Above is your
external IP address. To find your
internal IP address (in
Windows
Vista), right-click on the network connection icon by the system clock, and select
Network and Sharing Center, then View Status, then the Details button. Your internal
IP address will be the field labelled
IPv4 IP Address.
About IP addresses
Every website you visit can see quite a lot of information about you. You
don't need to worry, as it's part of how the internet functions - a website needs
to be able to identify your computer from others, in order to be able to reply with
the information you want.
Websites identify you using your
IP address - an identifying number unique to your internet connection at
any one moment in time, assigned to you by your
Internet Service Provider (ISP). Unless you have an agreeement with your
ISP to keep a static IP address, it may change occasionally. This won't affect your
internet connection, but may affect services set up to a static IP address, such
as a server's firewall.
As well as your IP address, website operators also know the version of browser you're
using. This allows website operators to record browser usage statistics, and ensure
their website is compatible through all of it's visitors browsers. The referring
website, if applicable, is also passed to the website's server, allowing the owner
to see where you've arrived from, or the search term used to find the website in
a search engine.
You arrived here from:
You arrived direct
You are using
CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)