IP Address refers to Internet Protocol Address which uniquely points to your system in a network.
But as number of computers in world are more in number here comes the concept of private network, A Private network will have only one PUBLIC IP and What internet service provider will do is that he creates his own PRIVATE IP’s in his network.In General Private IP network ranges are
192.168.1.1 to 192.168.255.255
or
172.16.1.1 to 172.16.255.255
By using this private IP’s more number of computers or devices in the network can connect to the internet from gateway of your network which converts requests from local network to and from the internet which consists of only a single PUBLIC IP.
You can find Public IP address of your computer by going to Whats My IP website and if you are in a local private network you can find your IP by typing IPCONFIG in command prompt and you can differentiate whether if you are in private local network or not by comparing these two ip addresses , If they both are the same then you are not in private local network and if they are different then it means that you are in a local private network.
As the name of Static IP itself implies, a stati ip is a constant ip address which will never change , there is an other concept of dynamic IP’s in which service provider will have set of PUBLIC IP’s and will allocate that set of IP addresses to the computers in network dynamically , that means today you may have one public IP address and the other day it may change to some other. But at times you may need one constant IP to access your system from internet so concept of Static IP address came into picture where your IP address will be fixed or static which will not change as dynamic ip’s do and you may ask why static IP is very important because it is very important for those who want to host website on their own and remember allocating static ip address on your computer doesn’t mean that you have got a static ip address , A Public IP address which is static is the one that is needed . To get a Static IP address you have to contact your Internet Service Provider and talk to him regarding static ip address.
