Smart way to get the public Internet IP address/geo loc

Question

I have a computer on the local network, behind a NAT router. I have some 192.168.0.x addresses, but I really want to know my public IP address, not somethin

Answer 1

I prefer http://icanhazip.com. It returns a simple text string. No HTML parsing required.

string myIp = new WebClient().DownloadString(@"http://icanhazip.com").Trim();