I Change My IP Address Quickly and Easily With a VPN. Here’s How to Get a New IP Address With and Without a VPN

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Your public IP address is sort of like a street address; it's a unique string of numbers assigned by your internet service provider to identify your home internet network. In addition to your home network's public IP address, each device on your home internet network -- like laptops, gaming consoles and smartphones -- has a private IP address, which is a unique IP address assigned by your router. Your router needs to know the different devices that exist so it can "talk" with them. So there's a single public ...