Thread: Obtaining a new virgin ip address.
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Old 17-10-2010, 16:04   #4
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Re: Obtaining a new virgin ip address.
Your cable modem/virgin leases you an IP address based on the MAC address of the equipment directly connected to the cable modem, that's the reason why connecting your PC to the modem gave you a different address(the PC's network card has a different MAC to the router).

Yes getting a new router would probably give you a new IP address, although it may be easier to log into your router and use the "clone" facility, if one exists on your router, either enter the MAC address of your PC's network card, or just change the router's MAC address by one character.

Your PC's MAC address can be found by running the command "ipconfig /all" at a command prompt, it's the combination of letters and numbers that is on the line "physical address".
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