MY WAN IP is Private but i want it public.

[556]

I AM TOTALLY NEW TO NETWORKING
My dlink router (DIR 615) WAN IP is 10.etc.etc.etc. Maybe IPs like 10.0.0.0. - 10.255.255.255 are private IP. Why it is private? What should i do if i want to access my router outside the network(because it is not possible to acces router outside network using private ip )
Sorry if i asked something silly.

 

[kanewolf]

Your ISP provided hardware has a router built-it (apparently). That is why you have a private IP address.

 

[apesoccer]

Your internet address may actually be a private internet address of whatever carrier you are with, where the ip it gets out on ends up being a 68.x address etc (or some other ip...try going to a whatismyip.com site to find out what your real public ip is). Seems like i remember Florida comcast sites doing some weird setup like that where i can look in my wan ports of devices there and see 10.x addresses for sites that do not have a static ip. If you are looking at your pc and see a 10.x address, then that is a private dhcp address from your personal/ip router/etc.

10.x is a private ip range, it isn't public anywhere. PC's use the private ranges 10.x and 192.168.x... If you were to make those ranges available on the public ip range, you would have issues getting to a given website or service if its in the same range you are already using. For example, if Google used a* public ip of 10.11.4.1, and your private network router was setup with internal ip 10.11.4.1, they wouldn't be able to talk because everytime it tried to go to www.google.com, it would look for that website to be physically hosted on your router. Which is why they had to designate an area where private pc's could be located without causing issues when attempting to connect to the public space.

*To get a static public IP, you need to request one and in all likelihood they will only give it to business level customers and at higher rates (you can get one...it'll just cost you extra and you'll probably have to decrease your data significantly to keep the price within 75% or so of your current internet cost). So if you're being charged 60 a month now, you'll be charged closer to 130+ for a static ip with less download ability. Or you can go online and use someone elses ip and connect it up with your router (there are both free and pay-for sites for this kind of thing...though i can't remember the name of what they call that kind of thing atm), so that it dynamically points to your router every time your wan address changes. Though that service doesn't work with some kinds of services that would work with a static ip...like mail for instance, that port is blocked by comcast/at&t etc. *(dynamic dns i think is what they call it...)

 

[das_stig]

Is the Dlink connect to router supplied by ISP, if so, the ISP router must be set to bridge mode/modem modem, to allow the Dlink to pickup WAN IP and act like a router.