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Your public address, your provider and the place websites think you are, read from this one visit.
Your public IP address
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Read from this one request and shown back to you. Nothing is looked up elsewhere and nothing is stored. What Teal VPN keeps.
Every page you open also receives these. They come from your browser, read here on your device and sent nowhere.
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Your provider sees one encrypted connection. The address, the provider and the city above all change. Free with 500 MB every day, no card.
An IP address is the number your connection uses on the internet, the way a phone number works for calls. Your home or mobile provider assigns it; at home it usually stays the same for weeks, on mobile data it can change every time you reconnect.
Devices on your home Wi‑Fi share one public address. The private addresses inside the network (192.168.x.x) never leave the router, so a website cannot tell your laptop from your phone by address alone.
The provider line above comes from the public registry of which company owns which address block. On a home connection it is your broadband company; on a phone it is your carrier; on café Wi‑Fi it is whoever sells the café its internet.
Your provider sees more than websites do: every domain your device asks for and every server it connects to, in the clear, even when the pages themselves are encrypted. That record is what a VPN takes away from it.
Connect a VPN and the card above changes: websites see the VPN server’s address and provider, and your own provider sees one encrypted connection to that server. Your real address is still used between your device and the VPN server; nothing can remove it from that one hop.
Restarting a router or switching to mobile data gives you a different address from the same provider, which changes the number but not what it reveals. A VPN is the only everyday way to change the provider and the location a site sees.
Your ISP (internet service provider) is the company whose network your connection leaves through: your home broadband company, your mobile carrier, or the owner of the Wi‑Fi you joined. The provider line on this page is the public registration of your current address.
The café, hotel or airport is buying internet from a provider, and websites see that provider’s address, not yours. The name shown on this page is theirs; your own carrier or home provider is not involved while you are on that Wi‑Fi.
It is not secret: every website you open receives it, and it points to your provider and roughly to your city. It does not reveal your name or your street. Together with cookies and logins it becomes one more way to connect your visits.
Location databases map an address to where the provider registered it, which can be the provider’s hub rather than your town. Mobile networks are often shown in another city. The place on this page is what websites believe, not where you are.
Connect through a VPN. Websites then see the VPN server’s address, and your provider sees one encrypted connection instead of the sites you visit. Teal VPN does this with one tap and has a free plan with 500 MB every day.
IPv4 addresses look like 203.0.113.24 and are running out, so most homes share one. IPv6 addresses are longer, written with colons, and every device can have its own. This page shows whichever your connection used to reach it.
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