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Your public IP address is the address websites see when you connect to them. It's assigned by your internet provider, and it's shared by every device on your home network. This page shows it along with your provider and approximate location.
Your public IP address
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Location data: GeoLite2 by MaxMind, looked up on our server. We don't store your IP address.
Quick guide
Assigned by your provider; visible to websites you visit
The address shown above
Assigned by your router to each device at home
192.168.x.x
The older format
203.0.113.42
The newer, longer format
2001:db8::1
Location is approximate — usually your provider's city, not your address.
In depth
The address shown here is your public IP — the one the internet sees. Inside your home, your router gives each device its own private address, usually starting with 192.168, 10 or 172.16–31. Those private addresses only work on your home network. When a device visits a website, the router swaps its private address for your single public one, which is why every device in your home shows the same public IP here.
IPv4 addresses look like four numbers separated by dots (203.0.113.42). The world ran short of them years ago, so newer networks also use IPv6, which looks like groups of letters and numbers separated by colons. Many connections have both, and your browser picks one. Neither is better for everyday use; they're just different address formats.
Most home connections get a dynamic IP that can change when the router restarts or after a while. Mobile connections often change IP even more often, and many share one public IP between thousands of users. Businesses and some home users pay for a static IP that never changes, which is useful for running servers or remote access.
An IP address shows roughly which provider and region you connect from. It doesn't reveal your name or street address. The location shown is an estimate from public databases and is often the location of your provider's equipment, which may be a different town or city. On mobile networks it can be a long way off. A VPN replaces your IP with the VPN server's address.
IP location databases map blocks of addresses to places, and providers move and reuse those blocks over time. If the city shown is wrong, it's usually because your provider routes traffic through a hub elsewhere. It doesn't affect your speed — but it can explain why some websites show the wrong local content.
The lookup runs on our own server using MaxMind's GeoLite2 database. Your IP is used for this one lookup and then discarded — we never store it.
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