diff --git a/.idea/sonarlint/issuestore/index.pb b/.idea/sonarlint/issuestore/index.pb
index 2d9f615..07697b6 100644
--- a/.idea/sonarlint/issuestore/index.pb
+++ b/.idea/sonarlint/issuestore/index.pb
@@ -13,6 +13,4 @@ $src/com/mercurys/encryption/Key.java,2/1/21dd4242503d81d0bdc133ffee4a870bffd14
 [
 +src/com/mercurys/encryption/Encryption.java,9/6/96a1e0b4ba9cb3e7c1682f3a3f3038c902a29072
 ^
-.src/com/mercurys/readers/TextReaderThread.java,7/5/751ea9d57a60ac3487c713ca6a7d89436ad389dd
-9
-	README.md,8/e/8ec9a00bfd09b3190ac6b22251dbb1aa95a0579d
\ No newline at end of file
+.src/com/mercurys/readers/TextReaderThread.java,7/5/751ea9d57a60ac3487c713ca6a7d89436ad389dd
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/com/mercurys/MercurysServer.java b/src/com/mercurys/MercurysServer.java
index 568a55f..bd19bf7 100644
--- a/src/com/mercurys/MercurysServer.java
+++ b/src/com/mercurys/MercurysServer.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import com.mercurys.handlers.ServerSocketHandler;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Scanner;
 
 public class MercurysServer {
 
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ public class MercurysServer {
 
     private MercurysServer(final int port) {
         try {
-            serverSocketHandler = new ServerSocketHandler(port);
+            serverSocketHandler = new ServerSocketHandler(getIPAddress(), port);
         } catch (final IOException e) {
             System.out.println("Exception occurred!");
             e.printStackTrace();
@@ -23,6 +24,11 @@ public static void main(final String[] args) {
         System.out.println("Thank you for using Project Mercurys!");
     }
 
+    private String getIPAddress() {
+        System.out.println("Enter your device's LAN IP address: ");
+        return new Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
+    }
+
     private void startTalking() {
         try {
             serverSocketHandler.talkToClient();
diff --git a/src/com/mercurys/handlers/ServerSocketHandler.java b/src/com/mercurys/handlers/ServerSocketHandler.java
index 76c680f..76c0132 100644
--- a/src/com/mercurys/handlers/ServerSocketHandler.java
+++ b/src/com/mercurys/handlers/ServerSocketHandler.java
@@ -14,15 +14,14 @@ public class ServerSocketHandler {
     private MediaReaderThread incomingReaderThread;
     private MessageHandler messageHandler;
 
-    public ServerSocketHandler(int serverPort) throws IOException {
+    public ServerSocketHandler(String hostIPAddress, int serverPort) throws IOException {
         serverSocket = new ServerSocket();
-        initialiseServerSocket(serverPort);
+        initialiseServerSocket(hostIPAddress, serverPort);
         acceptClientRequest();
         initialiseIO();
     }
 
-    private void initialiseServerSocket(int serverPort) throws IOException {
-        String hostAddress = "192.168.0.151"; //replace with one's own LAN IP address
+    private void initialiseServerSocket(String hostAddress, int serverPort) throws IOException {
         serverSocket.bind(new InetSocketAddress(hostAddress, serverPort));
         System.out.println("""
                 Server initiated.