How to change your ip address
23-05-2011, 00:44
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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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23-05-2011, 02:21
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Re: How to change your ip address
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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23-05-2011, 04:44
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Re: How to change your ip address
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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23-05-2011, 13:54
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Re: How to change your ip address
You can either change your NIC, modem or spoof your MAC address.
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23-05-2011, 14:46
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Re: How to change your ip address
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Originally Posted by Masque
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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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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23-05-2011, 17:51
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Re: How to change your ip address
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Originally Posted by eckuk
You can either change your NIC, modem or spoof your MAC address.
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That will have no effect if using either of the hubs.
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23-05-2011, 22:48
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Re: How to change your ip address
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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24-05-2011, 05:55
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Re: How to change your ip address
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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24-05-2011, 10:12
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Re: How to change your ip address
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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24-05-2011, 11:38
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Re: How to change your ip address
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Originally Posted by Nopanic
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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I tend to use stupid ones on DD-WRT like 80:08:1E:5B:00:B5 
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25-05-2011, 13:38
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Re: How to change your ip address
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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25-05-2011, 13:56
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Re: How to change your ip address
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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25-05-2011, 14:20
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Re: How to change your ip address
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
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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25-05-2011, 16:09
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Re: How to change your ip address
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Originally Posted by basicfags
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 |
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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25-05-2011, 16:30
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Re: How to change your ip address
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Originally Posted by Masque
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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