Sometimes it is important to know what your external IP address is. Whether it is for use on your xbox, or a tech to remote into your computer it can be a handy bit of information. There is a lot of sites that give you that information but the best and fastest I have used is IPFAIRY.com – its just straight forward, to the point, useful information without all the extra crap you don’t need.

 

An IP address is basically what a computer needs to get you where you are going. When you type in a human readable address like google.com, a computer converts that to a number, for example google.com currently translates to 74.125.225.32 – now isnt it easier to remember google.com instead of that number? Also, if Google needs to change that number they don’t have to inform millions of users, they just point google.com to the new number. So that is with a website, but when you are on the internet, you to must have a number, so that when you try to go to google.com the network, routers and servers know who you are and how to return the information you requested back to you. That, in a nutshell is an IP address :)

 

So give IPfairy.com a shot, besides they have a really cute fat fairy on their site. :-)

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