IP Address... how do i tell what it is?

[#1]

hi there - I'm sat in a hotel room and want to access my home broadband router. How do i find out what its IP address is? I can't seem to see any way of getting that from the many account/connection/broadband settings from within plusnet's help pages.
anyone know or do I just have to wait until I get home and access the router from within the home network?
cheers
Ian C.

[#2]

Welcome to the Forum
unless you have a fixed IP address, your router get a different one each time it connects

[#3]

Hi iacragg,
I've sent you a PM with your current ip address. Bear in mind should your connection reboot at any time this will change as it's dynamic.
Jojo

[#4]

thanks
just got the message and it's right. many thanks, that's much appreciated

[#5]

Hi iacragg,
No worries, glad I could help. I would suggest using something like DynDNS. You can set it up from home and when you're on the move it tracks your ip address.
Jojo

[#6]

For future reference you can visit http://www.whatsmyip.org/ and it will tell you your current public IP.

[#7]

But only if you are actually on that IP address... The OP is not so that would not have given them the IP address they needed.
DynDNS is the way to do this is future for dynamic IPs and many routers support this natively without needing to run any software on a PC on the internal network..

[#8]

D'oh! Sorry misread the OP.

[#9]

i actually already use opendns which does this with a little gizmo... unfortuntely I had run the gizmo in i-am-brain-dead mode and it over-wrote the original entry (my home IP) with the IP of the router at this hotel. Doh....
brain in gear before accessing internet would be very sensible.
anyway, thanks for the suggestions and help. I'm sorted now - it's all much appreciated
rgds
Ian C.

[#10]

and will look up the suggested link - thanks. if it does it without the need for s/w then that's VERY useful indeed.
excellent stuff. thanks again

[#11]

Hopefully you don't have a Belkin router. Getting DynDNS to work on these might be a bit troublesome judging from posts in this topic.

[#12]

fortunately not, it's a netgear.
thanks again
Ian C.