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CraigH
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I know the basics, every device connected to the internet has a unique IP address, and when I request something from another device connected to the internet my IP is sent with the request so that the data packets know where to come back to.
However I have problems with this; firstly, if I google "My IP" it tells me that my IP is an 11 digit number. I'm pretty certain there are more than 10^10 devices connected to the internet, so how are there enough IP's for every device?
I've heard of IPv6 which supposed to be the current form of IP's designated to devices, and these look like this 2001:0db8:85a3:0042:1000:8a2e:0370:7334
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
However my IP doesn't look like this, what's going on?
My second question is why does it say "Your public IP address is xxx.xx.xxx.xxx" when I google my IP? what is a public IP?
If I have multiple computers connected to the same wireless hub, or they are all connected to a Ethernet port in the same house/flat, then would there be any similarities in there IP address?
How about something like a university network? how would IP's be used there? for example at my uni all accommodation is connected to the university wireless network connection so we can access the internet.
I've downloaded a network analyser to try and work some of this stuff out. there seems to be about 3 packets every 3 seconds when my browsers closed but then loads when I request a webpage, but none of them have my IP as either the source or the destination, (well the last 3 digits are the same on allot of them)
Please help I'm very curious as to what's going on. Thanks!
However I have problems with this; firstly, if I google "My IP" it tells me that my IP is an 11 digit number. I'm pretty certain there are more than 10^10 devices connected to the internet, so how are there enough IP's for every device?
I've heard of IPv6 which supposed to be the current form of IP's designated to devices, and these look like this 2001:0db8:85a3:0042:1000:8a2e:0370:7334
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
However my IP doesn't look like this, what's going on?
My second question is why does it say "Your public IP address is xxx.xx.xxx.xxx" when I google my IP? what is a public IP?
If I have multiple computers connected to the same wireless hub, or they are all connected to a Ethernet port in the same house/flat, then would there be any similarities in there IP address?
How about something like a university network? how would IP's be used there? for example at my uni all accommodation is connected to the university wireless network connection so we can access the internet.
I've downloaded a network analyser to try and work some of this stuff out. there seems to be about 3 packets every 3 seconds when my browsers closed but then loads when I request a webpage, but none of them have my IP as either the source or the destination, (well the last 3 digits are the same on allot of them)
Please help I'm very curious as to what's going on. Thanks!