Thread: How to Find Your IP Address

There are various methods to find your IP address in case you still want to do so. First method is from a command prompt. To open a command prompt simplest method is to go to Start, then run and type in cmd and tick OK. You get a black box with a cursor like image below.



To find IP address you can type ipconfig and hit enter. You will get a listing same to this.



You will see three pieces of information. First is IP address which is address of PC on network. Then you have subnet mask which decides what subnet PC is on within network. Lastly you have default gateway which is a node on network that serves as an access point to the other network, many cases out to internet.

If you want to know full information you can type ipconfig /all to obtain a listing of other IP information.




This choice provides you information like host name, DNS & WINS information and MAC or physical address of network card.

The other method to obtain IP address is from network connection properties. Right tick My Network Places and choose properties. Then right click Local Area Connection icon and choose properties yet again. You get window like this shown below.




Choose Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click on Properties.

Now you should get the IP address information




If IP address can be obtained automatically by using DHCP then there is nothing listed in boxes and this technique won’t work to get IP address.

Last method to find IP address is to click on local area connection icon.

Then click on Support tab to show following.