Sunday, July 19, 2020

What is my IP address


A very old question. Yet, always new. Here's a very interesting fact. See below charts searches involving this questions. Showing the top 5 searches and still a relevant question. Most of us are interfacing with a computer and we sometimes get's into point of fixing IT issues. Like what is my IP address? Courtesy of Google Trends this is a very relatable demographics


There are various ways on how to locate this information depending on your OS as well. I don't want to give the tedious part of those numerous clicks. But, let me share you a quick and simple way to get that. Just a note though, this applicable with Windows 10(Sorry to Mac OS and Windows 7 if there's still any).
  1. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc. These keys are easy to find. They are just a single column in your keyboard. This will open your Task Manager. 
  2. Go to Performance Tab and choose Network for the details. Besides real-time date on current network performance, this dialog box shows the currently assigned IPv4 and IPv6 address for that connection, which comes in handy when you're working on a local network.
Now, to non Windows 10, you can have the click, clicks steps on this article.

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