What is a ip. address?

Question

What is a ip. address?

Answer 1

IP stands for Internet Provider.. contact your phone or cable company to recive the full details on your IP.. they should walk you though it.

Answer 2

IP stands for internet protocol. Everyone online has a unique IP address. Even the websites you visit have an IP address for their servers. Your IP may be dynamic, which means it changes every day or so. You may have a static one, which stays the same always.

Answer 3

An "IP" is an "Internet Protocol" address. IP addresses must be unique. All computers that use the Internet use only these unique IP addresses to talk to each other. Names such as http://www.yahoo.com are just for human convenience and are never used for computer communication. Computers use Domain Name Service (DNS) to turn the names humans understand into IP addresses computers understand. That is, they turn "www.yahoo.com" into "216.109.118.79". When you connect to Yahoo.com, your computer communicates with "216.109.118.79", not "www.yahoo.com".

An IP address is not part of the hardware of the computer. An IP address is something you can configure on the computer and is a unique address that is stored in the computer's software. This property of being unique makes it easy to find a specific computer using the IP address. The fact that the IP address does not come from the computer's hardware means that a computer can be replaced and the IP address it was using goes to the new computer instead of being thrown away with the old computer. This also allows you to change the address of the computer when you move the computer to another network. IP addresses are often referred to as logical addresses whereas MAC addresses are referred to as physical addresses.  

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address

if u dont wanna read all dat then the bottomline is-ip address is wid the help of which v identify a website in a large network or the world wide web,for instance!!

its the identity of a website besides its name

Answer 5

IP is Internet Protocol. Think of it as your "name" on the internet.

Answer 6

an ip address is a unique number which is used to identify your computer on net. it is assigned to you by your isp. and it is a unique number in the form of ###.###.###.###

Answer 7

Its the unique address of your computer or other peripheral on a network or the internet.

Answer 8

An Ip address has all your information in it