Private IP Addressing---? Manual Settings

Question

Our Cbeyond service gives info that we have Private IP Addressing for Network Config. Public IP Addressing is not provided.
Does that mean that I can't use Automatic but must do Manual Settings for Internet Accesss?

Answer 1

Okay I know you are going to ask how.
When you visit the above website actually when you visit any website, it needs to know your external IP address in order to deliver the information from that website to your browser.
What the browser wants to do is send a command to the Web server on www.apple.com that looks like this:
GET /index.html HTTP/1.0
Here's how that happens. The command is made into a packet, a block of bits like a telegram that is wrapped with three important things; the source address (the IP address of your machine), the destination address (17.254.0.91 ), and a service number or port number (80, in this case) that indicates that it's a World Wide Web request.
Your machine then ships the packet down the wire (your connection to your ISP, or local network) until it gets to a specialized machine called a router. The router has a map of the Internet in its memory — not always a complete one, but one that completely describes your network neighborhood and knows how to get to the routers for other neighborhoods on the Internet.
Your packet may pass through several routers on the way to its destination. Routers are smart. They watch how long it takes for other routers to acknowledge having received a packet. They also use that information to direct traffic over fast links. They use it to notice when another router (or a cable) have dropped off the network, and compensate if possible by finding another route.
Once your packet gets to its destination machine, that machine uses the service number to feed the packet to the web server. The web server can tell where to reply to by looking at the command packet's source IP address.
This is your external IP address in other words the website needs to know where to send the webpage information back to.
When the web server returns this document, it will be broken up into a number of packets. The size of the packets will vary according to the transmission media in the network and the type of service.
So why doesn't it supply your internal address, well this is because your router uses NAT and it knows what client on the internal network asked for the information and it is the router (with the external IP address) which asks and therefore when it receives it back, it then forwards it to the client.
As the router asked for the info, it is the router's address which is reported (the external address) and not the internal address.
What this means is that everything you ever ask for on the internet is recorded by the websites you visit.
iFelix
PS In future Gino please start a new topic (referencing the one that sparked the question) to avoid over-complicating topics, thank you.