Your router assigns a local IP address to each device via the DHCP server. Each device on your private network is assigned its own private IP address. One common example is the connection between your computer and printer - they’d use a private IP address. This is how your device communicates with networks outside of your own. It typically changes each time you establish a new network connection. This allows that website to send the information you’re requesting to the right location.
The IP address contains information about the country, state (or province), city and ZIP code of the device. When you visit a website, your device gives the website your IP address. When a device, such as a computer, phone, or router, connects to the internet it’s assigned an IP address, or identification, which allows it to communicate with other networks. An IP address, or Internet Protocol address, is a unique series of numbers which contain information about the corresponding device’s location.
