Find Extenal My IP without website possible in Windows Vista?

Find my external ip address without a website - is it possible in Windows Vista?

Yosef

Posted 2010-06-09T20:53:53.673

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It should be in the router configuration. Your cable or DSL modem provides your router with its external IP.

Open up the command prompt (cmd) and type ipconfig. Copy the default gateway into the address bar of your web browser. Log into your router. On the router status page... there you should see the external IP address that has been assigned to your router.

James T

Posted 2010-06-09T20:53:53.673

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If you have access to your cable or DSL modem's web interface (usually through http://192.168.1.1 or 0.1), you can try looking there. My modem's interface has a Status tab, where it shows the WAN IP address.

Om Nom Nom

Posted 2010-06-09T20:53:53.673

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Try:

ping -r 1 www.yahoo.com

It will try to ping www.yahoo.com and show you the route for the first hop, which should be the IP address of your router.

Note that nothing is magical about www.yahoo.com. You could ping whoever your want.

Update:

You could also try tracert -h 1 www.yahoo.com, which will give you the IP address of your first hop out to the Internet (which should be your router).

Chris Dwyer

Posted 2010-06-09T20:53:53.673

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Kindly notice the part where he said "without website". – Om Nom Nom – 2010-06-09T21:03:30.533

Ah... I'm an idiot. I'll edit with a different thing to try. – Chris Dwyer – 2010-06-09T21:42:33.913

That doesn't work for me. http://www.whatsmyip.org/ gives me 84.92.xxx.yyy (which is correct) while the ping gives me 84.92.mmm.nnn.

– ChrisF – 2010-06-09T21:50:22.943

@OmNom Nom: Do you think an ftp, or dns server would do? They're not technically websites :P – Phoshi – 2010-06-09T22:06:58.443

@ChrisF That's interesting. I'm not sure why that is happening. – Chris Dwyer – 2010-06-09T22:41:30.030

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms StaticWifi.local [192.168.9.1] So yea that doesn't work lol – Unfundednut – 2010-06-10T00:45:19.860

@MrStatic Maybe try -h 2 (will give you two hops) – Chris Dwyer – 2010-06-10T14:35:44.353

@Chris Dwyer, nope 1 is wifi AP 2 some random comcast IP but not one of my 5 statics and 3 is a random comcast router out there. – Unfundednut – 2010-06-10T22:08:09.150

@Chris, Try it, it doesn't! Yes, it gives first hop.. But it gives the IP of the interface at your end. That's the 192 address. The same thing that ipconfig shows. He wants the external IP. Not sure if that's the IP of the interface on the other end of your router, or the IP of the interface you connect to at your ISP's router.. But external ip is external ip.. you can see yours and you'll see your method won't give it. Nice idea though! I thought you might've been onto something! – barlop – 2010-09-08T03:23:08.487

there's a gadget in the online gadget gallery called network meter that will display your internal and external ip address. There's also a bunch of windows utilities that will do the same.

Network Meter: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=89fc6d27-0fe9-4c40-b1f4-e1c393415bff

utilities: http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/network/fwip.html

user4892

Posted 2010-06-09T20:53:53.673

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