Internet has become one of the trends these days. With the growing wind of time, popularity of internet is increasing. All the business markets have decided to develop one website for their own business. This is not an end of it but even individuals have started to develop a website for them to make it as a side business.
But, have you think that what does that matter through which you are able to locate the website? What happens when you enter a URL into your browser’s URL box? Let me tell you. When you enter a URL, browser looks for an IP address for that URL and reaches at the location of IP address to display the details in your browser.
So, what is IP Address then? IP address is nothing but a string of numeric digit that represents the identity of a computer or other network device on an internet. Let me tell you one more thing is that the IP addresses are also used in the wireless communication where communication happens without connecting the wire. Even though, it is wireless connection the method of using IP address is all the same and device that provides the medium is wireless router that transmits the waves catch by wireless receiver. Let us look at the wireless router and the way IP address is used in them.
All the routers have Internet Protocol address which is used as address for the LAN (Local Area Network) and one IP address is used for WAN (Wide Area Network). WAN IP address receives the data from the outside and LAN IP address actually communicates with the computer by providing the incoming data to computer. LAN IP Address is generally set to default factory address depends on manufacturer and writing http://192.168.1.0 (as an example) would open the router setting in the browser for user to access.
If you don’t know the router’s IP address, it is easy to find. To find this out, you can do two things. First you can search for the user manual of the router and if you don’t have it, you can visit the website of the manufacturer of the router and check for its default IP address. If you are still not able to do it and if you are running a MS Windows operating system on your machine, you should go to command prompt and should type ipconfig and the IP Address that comes as default gateway would be the IP address of your router.
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If you are an internet savvy then you must have heard about the IP Address. Let me still give you brief detail about IP Address. IP Address is a string of numerical digits separated by dot (.) that is unique for each network and it is actually identifies a computer on the location. To get into the more details, location of any computer in the world can be found out with the IP Address.
There are two types of IP Addresses. One is Static IP Address and another is Dynamic IP Address. As the name suggests, static IP Address is a default IP Address assigned to a network device where as Dynamic IP Address is assigned to the computer every time computer enters into the network. According to the requirement, different group of users use the different IP Address category.
Which one amongst both of them to use is always depends on the individual’s preference and more than that, it also depends on their own network requirement. Sometimes, some people do share the internet address to earn the profits from their assigned IP Address server but after a while they do come to know that they themselves are running out of IP addresses.
Due to the fact that server is shared by other IP Address members; the treat of downtime is very common in them. This is amongst the common reasons why people are advised not to share the IP Address. Sometimes, people runs out of the back up when crash occurs due to the shared IP Address and in this condition they run out of the IP Addresses. So, getting a shared IP Address is kind of a risk and if you don’t want to take a risk, it is advisable to search for a single IP Address deal available in the market.
Another disadvantage of shared address comes while dealing against the SPAM. It is possible that the server you are sharing can also have a source of SPAM and it would become difficult for your shared address to fight against it. However, this issue can easily be resolved if you have your own dedicated server. The people who have their own website might not share the IP Address server due to the fact that, a shared IP Address server can bring frequent downtime and it always affects the uptime of the website which is very important. Even though, there are certain website owners that prefers to share the IP Address in order to save some bucks.
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Some people might think that what is a need to hide the original IP address? Or in a technical language, what is the need of masking the original IP address of your computer. Well. There are certain reasons due to which it is very important to take required steps in order to hide your IP address. One of such reason is to keep your private information private from the hackers as well as intruders. The main reason is the privacy of your computer and second reason is to negotiate with the access block to your computer on certain websites. Let me explain both these reasons in brief before I actually tell you the methods of masking the IP address of your computer.
The IP address of your computer is a unique identity of your computer and your IP address gives the information about exact location of your computer in the world. So, there are good possibilities that people may try to get into your computer to fetch your private data. In order to avoid such conditions, it is good that you mask your original IP address. Let me provide some details about the second reason. Sometimes, it is quite possible that you might be sharing the same IP address in a common LAN. In this case, it quite possible that certain websites have blocked the access to your IP address due to mischievous behavior of other users and you might want to access the website. By masking your original IP address, you will easily be able to access the website that is blocked for your original IP address.
Let u snow look at the way, you can mask the IP address of your computer. You can mask the IP address two ways. Either you can use the websites that are providing proxy servers else you can use softwares that actually mask the IP addresses. There are many websites available on the internet that are providing the proxy servers and assign the different address from your original address while you visit any website through the proxy server. The only concern with them is they are full of advertisement and due to this reason, they are very slow in running.
The IP address masking is the best utility to use for masking the IP address. They are very speedy and efficient in running as well as it provides an option to user for setting a particular location of a country that user might want to display as an IP address location. These are the reasons, Importance and methods of masking an original IP address of your computer.
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