I'm trying to access my home computer from outside of my wireless network by ip, but when i find the ip of my home computer and type it into my other one it turns out to be my router. How do i find my real ip address in my wireless network?

You probably have NAT enabled on router, so it is quite possible your computer just does not have any IP which can be accessed from outside.. You can do port forwarding on your router, though (i.e. you connect to your router's IP to some port, and router makes it look like you just connected to your home computer to this port). Details of configuration process depend on router. Be careful not to open too many, though. And ip can be learned by 'ifconfig' or 'ip addr'.

There is some decent general explanation here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/d...nalaccess.html

although it's from the reference point of vmware.

And, there is a detailed tutorial here:

http://lifehacker.com/software/featu...all-127276.php

It uses a netgear router, and you might have something different, but the ideas are all there with detailed commands and examples from beginning to end.

You can goto this address and get your external IP. http://www.whatismyip.com/

Next you need to setup port forward to forward certain address from the external IP to the internal lan IP. Docs from maker of the router should help.

Or on many routers you can define a DMZ which will allow one internal lan machine to be complete seen on the wan external side like it was actually the external IP. Not the smartest idea unless the machine you define is well protect with firewall rules and security patches applied to all running services.

To see if port is open goto here and use the advanced port scanning tool.
http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/

Things you may run into.
Some providers block common server ports so you may have to do this. Start with high range ports.
Example forward port 22 sshd connection if port 22 is blocked.
External IP port 10001 forwarded to Internal IP port 22
So with this setup you use the external IP and port 10001 and it conects to lan IP port 22.

Other thing is testing portforwarding from with in your network. Many store bought routers lack the ability to use the external wan IP. So for instance you have a web server running with port 80.
You type the lan ip from with the lan network in a web browser and it comes up.
You type the wan IP from outside from a remote site in a web browser and it come up.
Now if you type the wan IP from with in your lan network it usually will not come up.

Brian