How to change your ip address
 

I've tried this loads of times and it never works. Does Virgin has some sort of lease time on IPs?

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It assigns them to MAC addresses. If you have a modem and router separately, you can force a new IP by manually changing the router's MAC.

God knows otherwise.

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If possible try leaving the modem off for at least 24 hours as your ip may be reassigned to another customer.

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You can either change your NIC, modem or spoof your MAC address.

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Never has worked for me, its always been at least 2 weeks as it changes whilst my modem is off when i go away on holiday.

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That will have no effect if using either of the hubs.

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Most good routers will allow you to change their WAN side MAC to any valid one, or at least clone from the device you're accessing the web GUI from. Do this then reboot the modem (as was said you do need separate modem for this; combined units won't work) and you should get a new IP address. Then the old one will be released, although I've found if you have a TBB ping test running that IP address is kept, presumably because the ping packets count as traffic and the lease therefore never expires.

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Be careful with spoofing addresses, if you spoof a valid MAC already in use, you will not get service, or could be competing with someone else for a connection.

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if using the dir615 with ddwrt firmware on a SACM then activate the spoof pc MAC option, this will force a new ip, use it for a week and then turn off again at which point your old DHCP will have expired and then you will get another new ip on the router MAC. You could keep the spoof on all the time but in my experience it was buggy causing connection drops on every dhcp renewal so I would only use it temp for this situation.

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I tend to use stupid ones on DD-WRT like 80:08:1E:5B:00:B5 :D

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quick way to change your ip adress is to use the transparent cache. internet explorer/options/lan settings type http://www.webcache.virginmedia.net into the proxy box and port 8080 into the other box. heyho you will have a new ip addy

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Odd isn't it.

Some folk come on here to complain that their IP isn't static and others wanting to change it.

Not commenting on which or what just on the situation.

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i agree i think that it's because there are upsides and downsides to both perhaps it's something virgin could look at to generate a little bit more cash giving people the option to choose static/dynamic at the click of a button. eg if they want to run a website they get a static ip adress and if they then want to do some annoymous surfing, they can click a button that sends the connection through a proxy to give them more privacy and the advantage of being behind virgins firewall.

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That is incorrect as you will not get a connection using that address it should be webcache.virginmedia.com port 8080.

It also does not change your ip address.

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not used it for a while because its a slower connection, sorry about the syntax error. but it does change your ip address. my normal virgin ip is
86.26.82.xxx after switching to the proxy it becomes,


What Is My IP Address - WhatIsMyIP.com
Your IP Address Is: 195.188.152.14
Possible Proxy Detected: 1.1 cache-farm-3 (NetCache NetApp/5.5R2D1)


Read more: http://www.whatismyip.com/#ixzz1NNkrCC3O

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It doesn't change it, your accessing things through another system.

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I like the way VM does residential IP assigning, personally. DHCP by MAC with timeout of 24 hours after which the address goes back into the pool. If you really want to keep that IP, keep your modem on. Pretty simple. I'd have a dynamic DNS account anyway, just in case you want to access things at home from elsewhere and you're worried something might happen that'll change your address.

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Try the connection tab at the top as you will not change the supplied ip to your equipment with a proxy as that has already been assigned to your equipment and therefore it will not change your MAC address either.

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I agree with Masque, it worked for me

I went to ip-address-lookup-v4.com and turned off the modem, came back 24 hours later turned the modem back on and hit refresh, the IP range changed. Wondering if it's possible to do it with less waiting time

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I don't understand why switching to a proxy still gives you a vigin IP address it doesn't make any sense...

here's the specs on 195.188.152.14

source here

this clearly shows host as virgin media, if you use a proxy it will show a host of the proxy not your ISP, otherwise it wouldn't make sense to use proxies at all...

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Proxy's can broadcast both the proxy address and client IP address.

For example they can broadcast the IP address requesting the traffic by parsing HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR or HTTP_CLIENT_IP.

Blind or invisible proxy's will not do the above, as they pass the traffic back to the requesting address anonymously.

These kinds of proxies tend to be used by people who want to hide their public address, or bypass a network ban against their public address.

Be VERY careful when using proxies if you don't want to get caught doing something you shouldn't, as you do not know how much information that proxy you are using is logging.

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Uhh, a virgin media proxy... you realise that's on virgin media's network, right?

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sorry, feel a little bit silly now :(