In a typical home network—one where you’re accessing the internet from your cable modem, which is connected to your badass wifi router—you have both an external IP address and an internal IP address. In simple terms, an external IP address allows devices around the internet to find you. The external IP address, in this case, would be the company’s phone number. How to find your internal IP addressGetting your internal IP address is slightly more complicated than clicking on a hyperlink, but it’s not that tough. Look for the line that reads “IPv4 Address.” The number across from that text is your local IP address.

Source: The Nation June 10, 2021 18:33 UTC