Your private IP address stays restricted within your home or office network, but that doesn't mean it doesn't do anything. IP addresses work a lot like traditional addresses. If you were to ...

The same private address ranges are used in every network, which means every computer within the company has the identical private IP address of a computer in thousands of other companies.

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