What is my IP, and what it reveals

• Your public address is issued by your internet provider, not by your device or your router.
• A lookup page shows three separate things: the address, the network that owns it and a database guess at a city.
• The provider name is accurate, because it comes from a public registry. The city is a guess and is often wrong.
• Your device also has a private address, usually starting 192.168 or 10., which never leaves your home network.
• The address changes on its own: a router reboot, an expired lease, or simply moving between Wi-Fi and cellular.
• Behind a VLESS key the world sees the server's address instead of yours. Nothing else about the device changes.

The same question gets typed a dozen ways: what is my ip, my ip, who my ip, where is my ip, why is my ip different today. All of them land on the same answer. When your browser asks a lookup page for the address, the page does not inspect your computer. It simply reports the address the request arrived from, which is the one your provider assigned to your connection.

Everything else on that page is added from databases. The network owner comes from a registry, which is why what is my ip isp queries get a reliable answer: the block of addresses is publicly recorded against a company. The city, on the other hand, comes from commercial geolocation data that maps address ranges to places, and those ranges get reassigned, resold and moved between markets. Being shown the wrong city, or a city two hundred miles away where the provider terminates traffic, is normal rather than a fault.

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Home connections lease addresses rather than own them. When the lease expires, or the modem restarts after a power cut, the provider may hand back a different one. Some US operators keep the same address for months, others rotate it weekly, and none of them promise either way unless you pay for a static address on a business line.

Phones are more restless still. Most carriers put many subscribers behind one public address, so the address you show is shared with strangers and changes whenever the handset reconnects. That is also why a site can occasionally treat a perfectly ordinary phone as suspicious: the address has a history that has nothing to do with you.

• It is not a street address. A city guess plus a provider is as far as a public lookup goes.
• Changing the visible address does not log you out of anything, clear a cookie or alter your browser fingerprint.
• If a site still shows the old region after connecting, it is usually a cached page or an app that stored the region at install time.
• A brand new server address can be missing from geolocation databases for a while and read as the wrong country.