Re: Getting a new IP address?
 

If your UBR is heavily subscribed and the are only very few spare IPs available then sometimes even if you try all the normal tricks of leaving off your modem or router overnight, then all that happens is that once your MAC address is broadcast onto the servers and it goes through the DORA process which reads the MAC address and finds the previous IP is still available then you will be re allocated the same IP.

Re: Getting a new IP address?
 

Can you access your router's configuration page?
That's how I did it. I changed the last two characters of the MAC address, rebooted router then modem (STB) and voila.

Re: Getting a new IP address?
 

I just did that, and success!

However, newsgroups and torrents seem to be pretty unresponsive; I get no seeds on torrents, and the newsgroup server just refuses to connect.

Edite: Scratch that, the news server couldn't find the files, but downloading some freshly uploaded ones as I speak. Speeds are what I'd expect. I'll check the torrents after newsgroup transfer has finished.

Re: Getting a new IP address?
 

the ubr can't cope with the changes. you don't need to do it a "few times", isn't once enough?

Re: Getting a new IP address?
 

As he kept getting the same IP back, it obviously thought it wasn't enough so kept trying? In any case, he's sorted now so I don't see the point in being nouty with him to be honest.

Re: Getting a new IP address?
 

you need to change your routers MAC, then it'll work. although, not everybody is able to do this, so just leave it unplugged for 24 hours.

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nobody is being "nouty", and let's not turn this into something which it isn't please....

Re: Getting a new IP address?
 

Torrents are working at full speed again, turns out I had limited the download speed while STM'd and forgotten to remove it.

Re: Getting a new IP address?
 

thought it might have been something simple :)