Anatomy of an IP Address Continued
The places of the binary digits determine their decimal value. You should memorize the numbers 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1. Notice that the numbers get halved as you move from left to right.
The number 192 is created when the first two binary digits are ones and the following six digits are zeros.
To determine the decimal equivalent, you can add the binary places that are identified by ones.
In order for communications to travel from one network to another, routers track and interpret IP addresses on TCP/IP networks.