Free tools / Network

What is my IP address

Shows the address this request came from, plus who operates it: the reverse DNS name, the autonomous system announcing the prefix, the network allocation and the registry that issued it. That is what tells you whether you are on your own connection or on a VPN.

From the command line

The same address is available as plain text, so it can be used directly in a shell:

curl elitesystem.net/ip

The response is a single address and a newline, with no markup, so it can be assigned to a variable or piped into another command. This one path also answers over plain HTTP, so no -L and no scheme are needed; https:// works too and is preferred when the answer matters.

In PowerShell, curl is an alias for Invoke-WebRequest, which wraps the reply in an object instead of printing it. Call the real curl that ships with Windows, curl.exe elitesystem.net/ip, or use irm elitesystem.net/ip.