What Is the 192.168.1.0 IP Address?
There used to be a time when phone numbers and street addresses were among the most personal information that an individual possessed. But times have changed, and we now live in the era of the internet, and IP addresses have largely replaced phone numbers and street addresses.
Back in the day, hardly anyone imagined that there could one day be billions of Internet-connected devices in the world. The fact that there will be more than 24 billion internet-connected devices installed around the world by 2020 would be a huge surprise to the people behind Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), which is 32-bits (232) in size and contains 4,294,967,296 IPv4 addresses.
To address the shortage of IPv4 addresses, a method of remapping one IP address space into another was proposed. Network address translation (NAT) makes it possible to use a single public IP address for an entire private network.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an open standards organization, which develops and promotes voluntary internet standards, dedicated several IPv4 ranges for private networks: 24-bit block (10.0.0.0–10.255.255.255), 20-bit block (172.16.0.0–172.31.255.255), and 16-bit block (192.168.0.0–192.168.255.255).
As you can see, the 192.168.1.0 IP address belongs to the 16-bit block of private IP address, but what exactly is its purpose? In most cases, this IP address is used by home broadband routers as their default address.
Yes, even routers have an IP address, called router IP address. In fact, routers that double as modems often have two IP address: one public and one private. The public IP address can be reached from the internet, while the private IP address is accessible only to devices that are connected to the same local network as the router.
