In article <1176161402.278176.237170@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups .com>,
Doug <douglass_davis@earthlink.net> wrote:
>is there
>any way for an average user to tell what their network address is (say
>from looking at info from ipconfig /all in Windows)?

If they want to know what IP address the public will see them as, then
whatsmyip.org

>Is there any way for an average user on a given host to tell how many
>subnets the network has been divided into?

No.