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Originally Posted by 50420
if you need it to change, your best bet would be to power down the cable modem for half an hour...the longer the better, and while its off hope for the IP address you have at the moment to be assigned to someone else
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That rarely works - I turn off my pc and modem every night and never get another IP when it gets turned back on in the morning. The best way to do it is to go Start>Run
type in command.com
when you get the c:> prompt type in ipconfig /release (press enter) then type in ipconfig /renew (press enter) hopefully that will give you a new IP. It won't matter anyway due to the fact that you will still be behind an NTL proxy (the 86.XX.XX.XX IP you are seeing)
And NTL Helpline isn't 50p a minute - that's the Dialup helpline. 0871 225 1111 Broadband helpis 10p a minute.