What is my IP: check before and after you connect

1How to read your address now

Open any IP lookup page in your browser. The big number it shows is your public address, the one websites see when you open them. Write it down together with the provider name and the city the page prints. Those three details are your baseline.

Now connect through the client and reload the page. If the number, the provider and the city all changed to match one of the server cities, the tunnel is carrying your browser traffic. If nothing changed, it is not.

2A short before and after test

1. 1

   Disconnect the VPN, open a lookup page and copy the address, provider and city.

2. 2

   Open the Telegram bot, take your key, import it into a client and connect.

3. 3

   Reload the lookup page in a new tab, so a cached result cannot fool you.

4. 4

   Compare the three details with your baseline. The provider should be a hosting company, not your home line or mobile operator.

5. 5

   Switch networks, for example from Wi-Fi to mobile data, and check again once.

3What an address says about you

A public address identifies a connection, not a person. It reveals the provider and a rough area, usually the city or a larger region. It does not give a street, a name or a phone number to a website. Your provider, though, can still match your real address to your subscription, so the tunnel matters on networks you do not trust.

Lookup pages also guess a location from registration data. That guess is often a few cities away from the truth, so do not worry if it names the wrong district.

4Public, private, IPv4 and IPv6

At home, your router hands every device a private address that starts with 192.168 or 10, and only the router has the public one. The page you open reads the public one. Many networks give you two public addresses at once, an older IPv4 form and a longer IPv6 form. If the page shows an IPv6 address that still names your operator while the tunnel is on, part of your traffic is bypassing it, and a leak check will confirm that.

Only five server cities exist, Stockholm, Zurich, Osaka, Rotterdam and Singapore, so if you see another country, first check whether the location lookup itself is wrong, then look for a fault.

5Things this check cannot show

• What the server keeps. We keep no logs, but a lookup page cannot confirm that for anyone.
• Which apps on your phone bypass the tunnel through their own settings.
• Whether a site can recognise you through a login, cookies or the browser itself.
• Whether your DNS lookups are in the tunnel, which is a separate test.

6Why the lookup should not be your only check

An address test is the quickest one, but it is also the easiest to pass by luck. Pair it with a DNS test and a browser WebRTC test, because those two find the leaks that an address page cannot. The same advice applies to any provider, including us. As a seller we suggest you run these checks yourself instead of taking our word. Our editors read the page against the service facts; an AI model helped write it.

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