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.

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Troubleshoot Skype Camera Not Working Issue

Computer users usually keep Skype in their system to stay connected with others via video calls. It is a majorly used software because it is an amazing product. The software has quality features where you are easily visible to the receiver and you can have real-time conversations. It feels so real that it seems like you are with your loved ones. At the bottom of the corner of the display, you can see a small frame which shows your camera. The small frame can be enlarged, but you are not visible to yourself in the frame, you are not visible to the receiver as well. Imagine how difficult it would be to continue the conversations without seeing each other on a video call. In that scenario, you may fret about what you should do? There are loads of reasons which may be creating the problem. Maybe the camera is not connected properly or there is a problem with the software. But don’t worry; there are solutions to solve the issue. Without wasting another second, follow the steps and fix the problem.

1. Check if the camera is working or connected properly to your device

It is always good to check the connections of the camera with the device as it resolves the problem beforehand. If your webcam is connected to your device, then try to switch port. Along with it, check if your device is On and see if anything is obstructing the camera. If the problem is not resolved, then jump to the second step.

2. Make sure if the webcam is compatible

It has been seen that Skype is quite choosy with Webcams. It does not accept every webcam to its software. If you are not able to see yourself, then your camera may not be compatible with the software.

3. Check if Skype is properly configured

In top bar of the Skype window, click ‘Tools’ and choose ‘Options’ to select Video setting. Through settings, you will be able to check your Webcam configuration.

• Select webcam and check for the default webcam. Check if Skype has picked a wrong device.
• Still, your device is not recognized by the software? Open its software.
• Change your camera in the opened software.
• Restart Skype and check the configurations in video settings.

If the issue still exists then follow the next step.

4. Check your Webcam setting

Checking your webcam settings might help you to resolve the issue. If it gets fixed, then you can see yourself in Skype’s camera window.

• Again, go to Tools in Skype. Click on options and open Video settings.
• In Webcam settings, you can view all the configuration, driver settings and correct or choose them according to your wish.

5. Update your Skype

It seems like your Skype version is outdated and hence it is not configuring your camera correctly. Thus updating your webcam could resolve  the issue. Microsoft rolls out the new updates for the software in a short time, anyways.

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