I’ve been diving into the public and private IP addresses, as I could understand public IP addresses are assigned by Internet Service Providers, but I couldn’t understand how and by whom are private IP addresses assigned. I couldn’t understand as well what’s the purpose of private IP addresses.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you for helping me out.
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Whenever a device joins a Wi-Fi network, that device is automatically given a private IP address by the Wi-Fi router (private IPs are not limited to wifi networks, but that’s mostly what the average consumer is using).
Your phones, tablets, smart TV, Ps5, everything in your house on your wifi network is given a private IP by your wifi router.
Your modem (or ISP gateway device, whatever you got from your provider) is assigned a single public IP by your Internet provider so that your residence can connect to the Internet.
So it’s almost like your Public IP is your house street address, and the private IPs are the names of the people inside.
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