Apr 29
The IP Address
An Internet Protocol address is used in conjunction with an Internet Service Provider router to direct network traffic. Basically it’s an internet service provider technology that uniquely identifies a computer or device on the Internet. This is similar to physical address uniquely identifies a place in the real world. Devices hooked directly up to the Internet need global IP addresses. Also, a router hooked up can take information given to it and further distribute it to local IP addresses like an apartment building can have multiple local addresses for its one street address. IP addresses are always of the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where ‘x’ can range from 0-9.