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Originally Posted by nicke261192
can you get a new ip
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Yes, you could try switching off your modem for a while, and hoping that the DHCP servers assign your old IP address to someone else. Then, when you next connect, the DHCP server will re-assign you an IP address as per normal, but it will be a different one to the previous IP address. There's no way of knowing how long it will take for the DHCP server to attribute your IP address to someone else however.
An alternative method would be to try using the ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew commands under Windows (from a command prompt). The first one releases the IP address, ie says that you no longer require it, whereas the second one requests a new IP address from the DHCP server. Theoretically it is possible to change IP using this method (and this is only theory cause chances are you'll get the same IP address back from the DHCP server anyway
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Finally, you could always use ADSL. When I was on that, my connection was dropped systematically every 24 hours and a new IP address was assigned. This was in France, as I've not had ADSL in the UK. Alternatively, go back to dial-up as you get a new IP address each time you dial-in.
ps - the above comments are from a general networking perspective - I don't know how NTL configure their DHCP servers, so there may be some way they've configured their servers that affects all this.