Your IP
216.
Every website and service can see this address
IP check
Websites know a lot about you
Without protection, every website you open can see your IP address, your city and your internet provider. Here’s what is visible about you right now.
Not protectedYour traffic isn’t encrypted — your provider can see your activity
Location
Couldn’t detect
What your connection gives away
- Internet provider (ISP)
- Couldn’t detect
- Network organization
- Couldn’t detect
- Browser
- Couldn’t detect
- Operating system
- Couldn’t detect
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Digital fingerprint
What else a website learns about you
Your browser handed all of this to this page in a split second, without a single click. Any website can learn the same.
Collected on this page
1data point about you
- IP address
- 216.73.217.178
Why it matters
What your IP says about you
The internet can’t work without IP addresses: they’re how data finds its way to your device. But the same address gives away your city and your provider.
An IP address is your device’s public address
Internet providers and websites use your IP address to know where to send the data you request — it works like a postal address for your device. Every data packet carries the sender’s and the recipient’s addresses, and every provider has its own address range. This information is public, so an IP address can reveal your location down to the city, the district and sometimes even the building.
Websites collect even more data
Websites combine your IP address with other tracking methods: cookies, tracking scripts, your browser’s digital fingerprint and your activity on the site. Together they build a detailed profile — where you are, what interests you, what you download and even who you talk to. Ad networks rely on these profiles to target ads and recommend content.
How to stay protected
How do you hide your IP from websites and networks?
Connect to Nash: the app encrypts your traffic, and websites see a Nash server address instead of yours.
Your internet provider and the owner of the Wi-Fi network see only an encrypted stream of data — not the sites you open or what you do there.
Connect to NashYour deviceYour IP hidden
Encrypted connection204b 06ef de4c 18d3 4c8e e495 385a 0d31 c955 957a a200 87f6 2a01 6466
Nash server
198.51.100.7
WebsiteSees the server’s IP
Your provider sees only ciphertext204b 06ef de4c 18d3…
The basics
What is an IP address?
A quick guide to how addresses work on the internet.
127.0.0.1
An IP address is a unique number that every device — a computer, a tablet, a smartphone — gets when it connects to the internet.
The address 127.0.0.1 is special: it’s how any device talks to itself. It’s also known as localhost.
IPv4 and IPv6
There are two versions of IP addresses. IPv4 has been in use since the 1980s, and IPv6 was developed when IPv4 addresses started to run out.
IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses — about 4 billion combinations. As more and more devices came online, that was no longer enough.
IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses — 3.4 × 10³⁸ combinations, enough for every device in the world.
Public IP addresses
A public IP address is like a postal address: without it you can’t receive data from the internet. When you open a website, your browser sends a request to the public address of its server.
Servers have public addresses too. One of Google’s servers, for example, is 142.250.185.195, yet we type the name google.com — the DNS system links names to addresses.
An IP address also reveals where a server is: IP databases place 142.250.185.195 in Mountain View, California.
Private IP addresses
Besides a public address, devices have private IP addresses for talking to each other inside a local network. A wireless printer at home, for example, might have the address 192.168.1.100.
Private addresses usually start with 192.168, and your router hands them out automatically using DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol).
Private addresses are visible only inside the local network. Public ones are visible from the internet and carry your communication with outside servers.