The external IP address of your router is as easy to find out as it is to find out the address of your computer from which you are connecting. You just need to go to a specific site and view the information it gives out.
It is necessary
Internet connection
Instructions
Step 1
In order to find out the external IP address of the router through which your computer connects to the network, open the page https://myipaddress.com/show-my-ip-address/ in your browser. Please note that at this point you must be connected to the Internet through this router.
Step 2
If you need to find out the external address of your computer, which connects to the Internet without using a router, use the same site. The same applies if the connection is via a USB modem.
Step 3
If you want to change the external IP address of your router, make sure you have a dynamic IP first. After that, completely disconnect the network connections of the devices, including the LAN connections. After 10-15 minutes, turn them back on and after that reopen in your browser the site that displays your current IP address. If it has changed, then the time that you have been waiting for was quite enough.
Step 4
Also, if you failed to interrupt the external IP in this way, disconnect the wires from the devices and restart their work. Wait a while and reconnect them. Connect and view the address. It takes different providers different times to reset the IP address.
Step 5
In order to view the external IP address of your router, also use various system utilities that display the state of the operating system at the moment, such utilities are also used to quickly access the free space on the hard disk, the speed of the current Internet connection, the used RAM and etc. In some programs, in addition to this, a window with information about the current external IP address is displayed. Special utilities for the Windows sidebar are also available.
