3 ways to find out your public Internet IP address

Sometimes you want to know the IP address you present yourself with on the Internet. These are the 3 most common ways to find out.

The easiest one is to simply do a Google search for
ip address.

First hit (after ads) is Your public IP address.

Another simple way to find out your public ip address is to visit one of the What is my ip address websites.

The third way, if you are behind a home or work router (and you probably are) is to logon to the router.

In this case you need to know your router's IP address and if you have username and password set to access the router (you probably have) then you need to know them as well.

Depending on the router, you need to find the Internet Connection settings/status ...

... and here should be your public IP address.

To find out your internal IP address and address of your router click here if you are a Mac user or click here if you are a Windows user.