Sorry.
All IP addresses in the 192.168.x.y range are IANA reserved addresses for "private network use". They are to be flagged as unroutable addresses
('bogon' addresses
) by ISPs.
Translation: These are not valid IP addresses outside your local area network. Somewhere, you have a real, routable IP address
(probably assigned to your DSL or Cable modem
) and the router for your local network
(probably also the DSL or Cable modem
) assigns a private use address to your computer.
What happens when you access the Internet is that the request gets sent to your local router. The router then passes requests from your computer to the Internet, first translating the private IP in to a public IP, and returns the results to your computer. This is a common method of sharing a single connection with multple computers, called Network Address Translation
(or NAT
).
(It is often used with single computer 'networks' as well.
)
The advantage of NAT is that people 'outside' your local network can't see anthing other than the gateway
(the device that has the real IP address
) and thus can't gain access to your computers remotely. This is also the problem when you *want* people to do this, like when you host a game server.
You'll need to know this real IP address to host a game server of any kind. You'll probably also need to do something with the router to make the host computer visible to the rest of the Internet
(sometimes called 'DMZ' settings or other things
).