PC IP or router IP

[marcodemarco]

I am on a lan behind a firewalled router

How do i tell if the ip shown on grc.com is my real ip or just the router ip? If it is just the router IP will my location still be shown on GRC

Has anyone tried "hide-ip-soft.com" Is it a proxy? Is there a free alternative recommended?

Thanks

[jonw]

The ip on grc.com is most likely your ip, router ip's are usually 192.168.100 or some ip like that.
For hide-ip-soft.com I have tried it before but was never really interested in keeping it, if your willing to pay a little more and want serious privacy protection looking into xerobank.

[marcodemarco]

i thought that when behind a router that only the routers ip was shown?

[LowWaterMark]

It's more an issue of your public IP address (the one assigned to you by your ISP) versus your local/home network private IP address (usually assigned by your router, and as jonw mentioned, these are often in the 192.168.0.0 range by default).

Websites are going to see your public IP address because that is the address they are given when you access them. In fact, they have to have your public IP address, otherwise they wouldn't know where to send their page content back to you.

You can think of it like this. The outside (Internet side) of your router uses your public IP address to get you on the Internet itself; to send out and receive back all your traffic. Your PCs and any other home devices on the inside of your router, talk to each other and the router itself using those private IP addresses.

You can have many PCs inside your home network, each with a different private IP address, but all of them communicate to the outside world using your public/ISP assigned IP address. That is the address GRC is going to see, just like any other public website.

Proxy services, such as the one you mentioned and many others, place themselves between you and whatever destination website or Internet service you want to use, so that their IP address shows to that website or service when you access it, not your ISP assigned public IP address. Be aware however that you are connecting to the proxy service itself with your public IP address, so they will know it. They have to in order to send data back and forth with you. So it comes down to whether or not you trust the proxy service and whatever they choose to do with your usage information.