Re: How can I change my IP address
 

Err, Normally, just "ipconfig /renew" does the trick..

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

errr not on my NTL it doesnt

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

Actually, more correctly, it's the "Ipconfig /release", wait, then "IPconfig /renew" that usually works for me..

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

well it doesnt for me...and i dont see it for many people either. Plus my method beats unplugging ur modem for like 4 hours...even then it still dont change all the time!

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

So what makes yours diferent to everyone elses?

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

When did i stipulate that mine WAS different from everyone else????
I just said for MY ntl it wont work....meaning there may be others where it does

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

Jesus, you havent been here very long, and are already starting to rub people up the wrong way....

I smell a troll...........................:rolleyes:

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

Im not intentionally, but by being new people assume that im easy pray. Please keep it good. I didnt start this!

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

Sorry if I gave the impression I was having a go. I wasn't. I certainly don't see you as Prey.

I just don't see how your method of changing IPs is any more likely to work than IPconfig /release, then renew (or, the renew option on the router, if connecting through a router). After all, if NTL give out IPs with 4 hour leases (which I think they do), then if you release, do whatever, then renew, as long as it's within 4 hours of the original IP being assigned, you should get the same IP.

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

That's my understanding of the IP assignment system that NTL use too, which is why if people have problems connecting new equipment up to their connection they sometimes get told to power the SACM down over night so that it releases it's IP address and picks up a new one in the morning. Unless you are lucky and someone is looking for an IP address as you release it you are most likely going to get your IP back again when you renew it.
We're not picking on you it's just that some of your replies have been a little.... short ;)

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

Releasing and renewing an IP doesn't change it for everyone, in the short term.. It depends on the DCHP server and who is using it.

I turned off my STB for 3 weeks when I went away, and I was still given my old IP back. Normally when the DCHP server gives you an IP, it tries to be "friendly" and hold it for you as long as possible. If it can avoid giving it to someone else, it will, so normally, you'll always get the same one back.

If you have an STB and want to change (can't see as it will help your browsing problem), but the easiest way is to spoof a new MAC address (google for programs to do this), which means you'll go through the provisioning system again, and get a new IP. I don't think that works for modems, because they aren't provisioned...

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

Unless I missed the point of his post, he was suggesting a way to change ip address, not get the same one (as per the title of this topic). Doing a release/renew will not get you a new ip on ntl - you will pickup the same ip again. Also, the leases in Nottingham are 2 days, not 4 hours, I don't know if this is the same elsewhere. :)

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

My point is that I don't see how his method is any different to releasing/renewing. It's been a while since I studyed DHCP, and I only have experience as a consumer of NTLs systems (so, no admin experience on their systems), so I could be wrong, but surely if your machine requests an IP within four hours (or whatever the lease time is) of being assigned the original IP, it will get the same IP? AFAIK, this will happen regardless of what you do before you renew the IP.

I do realise the point of his (or her) post is to suggest a way to change the IP, but don't understand how the method given is any more likely to work than releasing/renewing the IP.