How to figure out your public IP address

Posted on March 8, 2007 at 11:25 pm

Need to find the public IP address assigned to your house by your ISP? Well there’s a simple way to figure it out by simply going to this web site below:

You can then use this IP address if you want to remote desktop into your home computer or office computer (might have to configure the router or firewall, which I explain in this post on how to setup remote desktop on Windows XP).

That’s the really simple web site…if you want to see some cool stuff, like your location or someone else’s location based on IP address, go to this site:

http://www.ip-adress.com/

You’ll get a nice map of the location and also the name of the ISP.

This is also useful if you have to deal with someone trying to hack into your server all the time, now you can find out their location from this website! Then do a WHOIS lookup at

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp

and complain to whoever has the domain registered! I’ve done that a couple of times and people have actually responded and done something about it!

If you want to know the IP address of your local computer (and not your public IP address), then you can simple go to Start, click on Run and type in CMD. At the prompt, type in IPCONFIG and press Enter.

The line IP Address is your local IP address for that computer. Your public IP address will always remain the same no matter which computer you use from that location.