Probably at least once in their lives, each of us there are questions: «What is my IP?», «What's my connection type?», «How to know or verify IP?», «How do I get information about the geographic location of my IP address ? »« How do I know the IP address of a site? »etc.
And so let us all in order. What is my IP or just IP address? IP address (read as ah-wee-mail), it is nothing but an abbreviation of the first letters of words Internet Protocol Address (IP-adress). In other words IP-adress, is a unique identifier (address) of the device connected to a local computer network or the global world of the Internet. Typically, the device acts as a personal computer. However, this can be and laptops, dedicated servers, mobile phones and much more. Each of these devices at the time of connection to the Internet with its IP-address. And if at the time your computer is also connected to the Internet, the question: «What is my IP address?», Can be paraphrased differently: «What a unique address from my computer?»
What is my IP? The list of IP addresses can be done in a variety of different estimates for the car is not a principle. For us, the people it's best to record the addresses in a decimal system of calculation, as the binary system is very cumbersome and is not familiar to all. Address is a set of four numbers from 0 to 255. As the separator between the figures used by the point.
It depends, my IP address of the geographical location of the region? Based on the fact that the attribution of addresses being providers who provide Internet services in the region. So you can confidently state that the IP-address is rigidly connected with a certain region (country), and can be used for the establishment, where the connection of computers to the Internet.
Because people are very difficult to associate an IP address in the memory, which are represented by numbers, were invented by the special database that matches those addresses character names. It is very convenient, because they are much easier to remember. These symbolic names are called nodes (hostname). There is a direct and reverse conversion of addresses to nodes and vice versa.
My IP address is static or dynamic? Static IP addresses is called the address, which is enshrined permanently for one user. Dynamic named address, which gets the user at the time of connection of the total mass of free IP addresses.