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Is WAN IP and public IP the same?
A public or WAN (wide area network) IP is an address which can be routed over the internet. Even your router – the device connecting your LAN to the internet – has a WAN IP adress. You can see your WAN IP in your router, or use web services.
Is my public IP the same as my router?
The go-between for the public and non-public IP address is your router: (It also assigns a different, but similar internal IP address to any other computer connected on your network.) Your router “asks” and receives an external IP address from your Internet Service Provider (Comcast, Verizon, etc.).
What is WAN IP address?
(Wide Area Network Internet Protocol address) The WAN IP is the IP address assigned to the Internet-facing (public-facing) side of a network by the network administrator in a large enterprise or by an ISP.
Why are my public IP address and router’s Wan ip address?
To prevent a problem from occurring with this overlap of private addresses, the site’s Internet router translates the private address to a single public IP address for the site as a packet goes out on to the Internet. When a response is received, the router translates the address back to the original private IP address.
Can a router change the internal IP address?
Even if you did not get the address reservation, if you know the internal ip you can still set up the internal ip to the port. Just it may change when the router is rebooted. Try both IP addresses. Re:My public IP displayed in WAN settins is different from the IP in google.
Why does my phone have a different IP address than my computer?
Basically, they have a router on their side of the connection. This is unlikely. You are using a VPN service or proxy either on your computer or at your router. This will cause the IP the internet is able to see to be different than the one assigned to your WAN interface. See if a cell phone or tablet on wi-fi shows this same behavior.
Is the IP in Wan settins the same as in Google?
Re:My public IP displayed in WAN settins is different from the IP in google. Use whatismyip.com to see your public IP. If you use a VPN the IP will be different and may change. Most use a DDNS service when port forwarding. Re:My public IP displayed in WAN settins is different from the IP in google. @ArcherC8, thank you for the reply!