What is IP address?

IP stands for Internet Protocol.



If you use internet than you must have heard term IP address. Before we go into details of IP you need to understand one or two important terms.


Protocol: Protocol is a language or set of rules that have been decided to make two computers talk to each other. Various things on internet are performed by various protocols few examples of those would be.


FTP: File Transfer protocol use for transferring files from one computer to other.

HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is protocol used by browsers to talk to web servers and transfer data to and fro

MMS: Protocol used to transfer streaming video.


IP is one of the important protocols used over internet to actually transfer data.


As we all know internet is nothing but a really really big network of computers connected with each other. On this network computer needs to have an address before other computers can find it and transfer data.



IP address is a unique address which can help to identify your computer on this network thus enabling transfer of data between your computer and other computers.


IP address 32 bit address in the form of 4 numbers separated with the help of decimals few examples of IP address are
10.34.34.5

23.35.45.23

169.34.34.2

224.55.23.54


You can view you IP address by going to command prompt and type:


ipconfig / all


You should be able to see all the details of your IP address.You can renew your IP address by the following command


ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew


ipconfig /help will show you all the options that you can use with ipconfig command

Will soon post details like Ip address classes, ranges, subnets and IP V6