How can I change my IP address
 

I need to change my Ip Address how can I do this??

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

The only thing I can think of which might work is

ipconfig /release

wait a while (the longer the better) and hope someone else picks up your old address, then

ipconfig /renew

(or reboot)

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

and the next question is why do you need to change it :erm: :)

Re: How can I change my IP address
 

Yes indeed - please bear in mind that whatever problem you are having with your current ip (blocked? DDOS attacks?) you could simply be transfering the problem to someone else.

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Sorry I'm having trouble accessing web sites like this one, I have to delete my temp internet files so I can access.

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IN which case the problem isnt your IP, but something on your PC

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Try changing you proxy

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:tu:

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Done all that.

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Changing your IP wont help, try (at the run prompt) putting ipconfig /flushdns, then reboot.

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Try a different browser such as Firefox if you are using IE.

I am just down the road from you and if I have a problem accessing sites I switch to a specific proxy. I am currently using nott-cache-5.server.ntli.net which works OK for me.

If you did want to change IP then change your ethernet card for a different one or switch to USB (not really advised). This won't solve your browsing problems though.

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Hi Ian and thanks, Ive changed my proxy many times since last week also I've unpluged my modem about a dozen times, I got in touch with Tech support in Wales last night, she said that I have a virus on my machine :erm: :erm: I've scanned it with AVG no virus, she then said Ive got spyware, did a scan for that, no spyware. I've only had this machine 2 weeks.

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There is an easy way to change ip not many people know about

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oh go on tell us :erm:

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Ok. First of all you release the IP. Then go into control panel>network connections> then right click you network adaptor and go to propeties, then highlight Tcp ip and click propeties in that box.

Then put a fake IP address in that box and a subnet of 255.255.255.0.
then click ok and everything is done. Then go back in there again and click obtain ip address automatically. then when it renews this time you will have a new IP!!

Sometimes if it doesnt work, type renew in cmd.

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

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errr not on my NTL it doesnt

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

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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!

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So what makes yours diferent to everyone elses?

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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

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

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

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

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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.

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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 ;)

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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...

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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. :)

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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.