How to Check Your Local and External IP Address?

Sometimes, the Internet and also Networks, doesn’t even recognize computers by their given name. Generally, computers only choose numbers, and the numbers are always used as identifiers which are called as IP addresses.

However, the "IP" stands for the "internet protocol," which is now becoming the part of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TPC/IP). In short, it is called as IP, and TCP/IP is the language which is used for communication by most of the networks.

While if you're troubleshooting with the internet or networking problems over the phone or on your system, then the key piece of information is only your IP address. Apart from this, it is very much easy to find it on both Mac and Windows operating system.

Here you can easily find how to do it by following the given few steps. The steps are discussed below:

Firstly, you need to know that there are two kinds of IP addresses:

· Local IP address

· External/Public IP address

Local IP Address

Normally, the local IP address is easily recognized your device or your computer system to the local network.

External/Public IP Address

And the External/Public IP address is sawed the rest of the internet settings or overview.

So let’s first find out the external/public IP address since it most commonly needed in number and also a lot easier, so here a look:

Steps to Check External/Public IP Address

1. Visit to any Search Engine like Google or Bing

2. Now, search by typing what's my IP

3. Choose the site called what’s My IP Address.

4. Now, Click on What’s My IP Address.

5. Finally, your external/public IP address should significantly appear on the resulting page.

Steps to Check Local IP Address on Windows

Here, we provide you complete instruction guide for the Windows operating system. The steps are discussed below:

1. Click on the Start menu tab

2. Enter the word “cmd” in the box

3. Now, the “cmd application” will now appear in the Start Menu panel

4. Click on the “cmd application.”

5. Then, a command line window will automatically open.

6. Now, type “ipconfig” in the search box.

7. Click on the Enter tab.

8. Complete information will appear on the screen, and the line you look for is "IPv4 Address." However, the number across from that text is your local IP address.

Steps to Check Local IP Address on Mac

Below we provide the complete instruction to find out the Local IP address on your Mac operating system. Simple steps are mentioned below:

1. Click to launch System Preferences. Through Apple menu, located at the top of the gear icon in the left-most corner of your screen.

2. Click on the Network labeled icon.

3. Few options should appear on the left with labels such as Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, etc. and the one with some green dots have IP addresses which assigned to them.

4. Click on the top and search to the right. A verdict displayed like "Wi-Fi is connected to Chocolate and has the IP address 192.168.1.102." and the number displayed at the end of the sentence is your local IP address.

Carl Smith is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Norton security products at www.norton.com/setup.