Hello and welcome to the computer lab vids YouTube channel and today we are
looking at how to find your IP address on a Mac computer and also how to find
your Router's IP address on a Mac computer there are several ways to do
this on a Mac why is it important well you might want to access your broadband
provider or ISPs Router to change some of the settings in there change the
firewall rules we also might want to know your internal IP address so this is
the internal side so anything that's within your home environment or your
office environment everything that's on the network there this is how to find
that information out if you wanted to find out your external IP address I will
just show you the end just a quick website to go on that's
easy enough to find out so anything beyond your router obviously we can find
that out quite easily but to find out the IP address of your router and also
your machine on your Mac the first thing you need to do is go up if you've got
settings down in the bottom toolbar and got System Preferences here if you don't
have it there I just go up to the Apple logo in the top left hand corner click
on that down into system preferences I'll just get rid of this window for a
second so open system preferences and then here you then need to go to network
click on network and then straight away you can see my Ethernet is connected and
that is the Ethernet IP address of this machine so this Mac I'm currently on
is 192.168.0.31 and the router address is 192.168.0.1 so
that's the Ethernet if you're not connected by ethernet and using Wi-Fi
only, click on the Wi-Fi logo down into advanced once you're in advanced
go across to TCP/IP and then the router again is listed and this is for the
Wi-Fi so if I didn't have the ethernet connected
and then it would list obviously the different one depending if he was
connected on Ethernet or Wi-Fi so they're the two different ways to find
out how to access your router so that address there the 192.168.0.1 that can
now get me to my router or so if I close this window down open up a web browser
type in 192.168.0.1 that will take me to my broadband Routers home page where it
can change settings create firewall rules change the Wi-Fi settings switch
Wi-Fi on and off and all these different things that should be accessible within
your Routers home page just for the people who are using the sky router you
do have access to this simple page when you initially log on but if you want to
change any more advanced setting so changing the Wi-Fi username and password
on your sky router then you need to go into your administrator account for this
particular model also when you click on any of these tabs here it will ask me to
login for this particular Sky router the username is "admin" and the password
is "sky" and then that should allow you into your settings and where you can
access more the detailed information this particular model is the ER 115
Sky Router that's what we wanted to access and to your settings within this
page and that is a way to do it obviously if you're on a different
router it will be slightly different but they usually do have an admin username
and password please do if you have them please do put me in the comments below
for other people to view the settings in there ok so that's it I hope you did
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