Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a ...

You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s ...

If you weren't aware, the "IP" in IP address stands for "internet protocol." Basically, it's like a set of rules for accessing and utilizing the internet, though in practice, it's more like a virtual ...

IP addresses are like opinions… everyone has one. But not every IP address is created equal. Some IP addresses are dynamic, which means they automatically change, based on router settings. Also: ...

What is my IP? It’s an odd question in most people’s minds, yet it’s one of the top ten most-searched questions on Google. Those who know what an IP address is will already know most of these searches ...

To find the IP address of your router, you'll just need to open your computer or smartphone's internet settings page. Once you've found your router's IP address, you can use it to open your router's ...

Many of our readers are no doubt familiar with the basics of IP address: They provide a network address that’s used to reliably route Internet traffic to your PC, smartphone, or other device. The ...

In recent issues of this and the Convergence newsletters (see the Convergence newsletter archives), we opined that there were few reasons why you would need a static IP address for a residential ...