Your ip address is:
IP Emu is here to help you:
This particular site IP Emu provides you with the information of your own IP address and the location of your pc. It will help you to look up for your own assigned IP address with much more information which can be used for various purposes.
IP address look up.
What is an IP address?
How is it related to us while using internet?
Is our privacy at risk by this ‘IP address’?
How does networking work?
These are some kind of questions which rush into our minds when we hear the term “IP ADDRESS”. So let’s just give you the basic information about this term. It is the abbreviation of internet protocol.
Have you ever thought that how in the world does the network connections come to know where to provide which information? Or to which computer shall a particular mail be sent? How does the complex network connections work which comprises of millions and billions of computers interconnected around the world?
No? ok but here’s the answer: This network connections uses IP addresses (kind of code) which is assigned to each computer connected to the internet and with the help of that addressing, sending and receiving data and other processes take place. Whenever a PC is connected to an internet connection, it is assigned an IP address within microseconds. If that PC is disconnected once and then reconnected even then a new IP address is given to that particular computer.
Looking up for an IP Address:
This IP address does not interfere with our personal information. If you need to look up for a particular IP address you can get an idea of the location of that IP address, but it’s never 100% accurate neither can we get the exact location. Thus, it has less privacy issues. IP Emu is also concerned with finding your own IP address as well as its location which includes country, city etc. and is pretty much accurate.
How to secure your networking path from eavesdropping:
Here another term must be introduced, VPN i.e. virtual private network. It is a secure tunnel between two computers or devices, it is a method to provide protection and security to its users when are using an untrusted public network.
Now how does it work? When you connect to a VPN, you click a link on a special website and log in your credentials; this exchanges a trusted key with that other server indifferent of the distance. When both the users have verified each other as authentic, a secured tunnel is formed which is safe from all prying eyes. It guarantees a fully secured path for sending and receiving your data.
Proxy servers:
There are other servers in the process of networking know as proxy servers. These are the type of servers which serves as a third medium between two unknown users as the information flows from one computer to the other with a proxy server in between. These web proxies actually facilitate the access to the information available on the World Wide Web, some of the types being open proxies, reverse proxies etc.