Im jus wondering how do u change ur ip address,besides contacting ur isp to let them change it for u.Thankz

If its a Static IP call your ISP, if its Dynamic unplug your router & modem, wait about 5 mins, then plug them back in.

Most Dial-Up and DSL internet connections will change automatically. Dial-Up connections will usually change every time you connect to the internet, so to change your IP just simply disconnect and re-connect (Although not all ISPs for Dial-Up are like this). For DSL, you can either reboot the modem, or you'll be given a "lease" on the IP address, which can be anywhere from 24 hours or more (I've had the same IP address with DSL for awhile now...).

Cable on the other hand will most likely mean that you have to call your ISP to get the IP address changed.

I'm not sure how Sattelite, T-1, T-3, or other lines work though.

This is very simple to do, if you read above with DSL/Dail-up usually the way to do is to simply disconnect/reconnect. However cable is a different story, for cable if dynamic its the same as DSL/Dail-up but when it isn't it requires a bit more work.

First thing that has to be done is you need to be able to change your MAC address, if you have a router I'm almost certain its in the settings somewhere just look around. However if you are connected directly to the modem then you will not be able to change the MAC address because its phyiscally written on the card. Don't lose all hope just yet because you have another option, you can spoof your MAC address using programs like SMAC (you can find SMAC here: http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/) using this you can change the MAC address and then all you have to do is reset your modme (usually by unplugging it for atleast 10-30 seconds).

If you have cable...

Upgrade the firmware on your router (even if you don't need it). You'll lose your port redirects, triggers, etc... and they'll have to be re-set..

... but you get a brand new IP out of the deal.

upgrading your firmware wont change your IP address, neither will changing your MAC address. As Fixed and GTX said you either need to reset modem in the case of a dynamic connection or call your ISP if you have cable which is usually static.

Changing the MAC address has worked for me before on several ISP's because the connection is using the MAC address to assign the IP when a new MAC address is present it updates the ip. However it may not work all the time, I know I was limited to only 3 IP's when I did it on a friends ISP but hey, it's still worth a shot .

As well for me, upgrading my router firmware forced a new IP to be leased. My ISP is a cable company, dynamically assigning IPs, leasing every week, but releaseing the same IP, week after week.

I know it works, because I did it last week, and had to reassign all my DNS to the new IP.

If you don't have a router, a simple fix would be a simple LAN card swap. New LAN card, new MAC address, new IP. I know for a fact that it works with cable companies, because a) I've done it, and I used to be 2nd tier ISP support for Rogers (local cable ISP in Canada).

And we never reset customer's IPs on their request, unless they had a really good reason (usually legal concerns). You can't just call up your cable ISP and ask to get a new IP leased. They won't do it. They're not obligated to, and their reasoning is, if you can't provide a legitimate cause for the IP change, then they won't do it, because you're prolly up to no good.

ok the part about upgradeing the firmware on the router isn't always true. I recent did & it keep all the settings before the upgrade.

the firmware upgrade and the change of mac address only give you a "new ip address" because its a dynamic connection and it has to re-lease an IP when it reestablishes its connection to the ISP. A static connection WILL NOT CHANGE using those methods.

You could also try a command if you're connected directly to the modem, without a router.

Open up the Command Prompt
Type ipconfig /release
It should say that the address has been release (if it errors, then nevermind)
Then type ipconfig /renew

If you didn't have any errors, this should give you a different address

you might also want to do a flush of your dns for better performance.

ipconfig/fluchdns

Don't you mean ipconfig /flushdns

Fluch doesn't do anything

ops, Thanks for the catch, spelling isnt my strong fortay. (I probably spelled that wrong as well, lol.)

y0 GTX5_Crusader, i got __ ___ from a game and i wanna get back on by changing IP, u told me to do what?
Type ipconfig /release
Then type ipconfig /renew
Didnt change a shizil doog, what i do? People say what not to change IP Address and none of them work, Sub Mask changes but thats not what i want.
How do u really change IP Adress?
Some website give u cheap software that changes it but its faking it, its not really changed.
I check i tby going to Propertied by right clicking on My Network Places then i click once on My Local Connection (i got XP) then on left side it told me IP Address, it didnt change man. Tell me somthing new.
Can you(GTX5_Crusader) or any1 here please contact me on be_nice_62@hotmail by msn or hotmail ? and help me out doog plz?
TO make you happy here is my pictures i took yesterday.

You drunken bafoon. Welcome to Geeknewz

well thank you, that really helped, can u help me change ip address?

It probably doesn't work because you aren't connected directly to your modem..?

heres a tip, dont get banned from games. You dont deserve to get back on, becuase clearly you did something to get banned in the first place and will probably do it again.

Troa34 why are you on this forms shizil if u cant help people? keep your commants to your self if they are useless.

Troa has a point, they should just ban cd keys. People like you wreck everything for people like us.

For the good of Geeknewz...

Go away, Troa owns, leave him be. He's right, you are wrong. Go home you 10 year old.

Lets all calm down and get back on topic.

1st Warning

-pdoog on other thread

Point made. And I've been on these forums for 2 years or more. You're coming here to bypass someone's decision on your idiocy. Im done trying to help, and I hope everyone else is too becuase you dont deserve to be unbanned.

I to need the same help as pdoog, I got banned from a forum becuase i left myself logged in and some friends thought it would be funny to get me deleted.
I went there every day

Ok well i didnt read all the post from the page before but it seems like you still need help. With windows XP you can drop/release and renew your ip address pretty easily.

Try the following:

1. Click the Start menu button on the Windows taskbar.

2. Click Run... on this menu.

3. If the computer is holding a current IP address, type 'cmd' (without the quotes) in the text box that appears. A command prompt window appears on the screen.

4. Type 'ipconfig' (without the quotes) to view the status of the computer's IP address(es).

5. If the computer is holding a current IP address, type 'ipconfig /release' to let go of the address.

6. Type 'ipconfig /renew' to obtain a new IP address (whether or not the computer is holding a current address).

But of course, that only works with a dynamic IP. Now, I agree with troa about him not deserving to go back on the game, but still, I'm gonna try to explain one more time why he can't change his address with all those "scam" programs.
When you use one of those programs, all that changes, is the proxy you use. When you access a site through a proxy, you query the proxy to get the site for you, and then the proxy sends it to you. That means that the site you were visiting didn't see YOUR IP, but the IP of the PROXY. That's not too hard to understand, is it?
Now, on to why you can't change your IP just like that : ISP's have a limited amount of IP's, so they usually use static IP addresses. If you don't know what static means, here's a definition : Now, it says "showing little if any change". That means that your IP remains the same. You can try all you want, but you won't be able to change your IP (except if you can tunnel all your internet traffic through another computer, which is quite complicated, and it'd use your bandwidth AND that of the other computer). So there is nothing YOU can do manually. All you can do is call your ISP, and make up some lousy excuse for them to change your IP address, and if you're lucky, they will. But just don't say "I got banned from a game because I was hacking", because they will most certainly not help you out. And IF you do get a new IP, I suggest you either stop using hacks in games, or stop annoying people on forums with all bold all green characters and accept the fact that you were stupid enough to get banned. No real offense meant, but if I got banned from somewhere, I'd just go on with my life, and try some other game.

EDIT : you could also wait for the whole world to switch to IPv6

I dont think IPv6 will be out for a while, people are now learning how to subnet, and they have private IP addresses.
if it comes out, it will be a while.

I dunno, I heard people were already afraid that with the fast growing amount of people online might become a problem. IPv4 only allows 4294967296 (4,3billion) different addresses, minus some like 127.0.0.1(localhost) or 255.255.255.0(subnet mask). Just look at how many IP addresses are already taken, and look at how the wealth of countries like china and japan is growing... We'll be in trouble soon. That's why they came up with IPv6 in the first place.
Click here (wikipedia) to find out more about it.

PS : LOL, I just read it myself, and I found out what you meant, suran . What you mean when you talk about subnets, is more or less routing, isn't it?

I just tryed the ipconfig /release and renew, but i just got the same one back.

all i know is that this computer is connected with a router.

no idea if its dynamic or not.

What should be done if there is an IP address conflict among installed hardware?

I just used SMAC, piece of cake!
It's becoming one of my favorite tools!!!

SMAC = http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac

I have a comment about SuranWrap's thinking on IPv6. IPv6 have already been out for awhile. Just us American that are behnid the times. We have done subnetting thus we technical don't need IPv6 but were almost getting to the point were we need to go to IPv6. Now I know most ISP boardband ISP's take your MAC address. Thus they asign your address an IP. you can't change that IP unless you call up the ISP & go though a lot of loops to get is changed.

None of this is working for me !!!!

All i wanna know is how to change my ip without hastle !
I get my connection from a router too

Erm, one more advice : try using an anonymous proxy

thank you, amen!!
end of story

How do you use a proxy server? I mean in a way that will route all data through it and not just one that changes your IP when you use Internet Explorer. I tried using stuff, but when I open Netscape, my old IP is still being displayed.

Thanks

I believe routers can do what your want

I don't want to sound patronizing here, but I strongly suggest you people asking questions go and read up about networking, subnets, IPs, MACs and proxies etc. At a hardware level.
It could take a while and there is a lot, but keep going back to it and everything about IPs (and changing them) should become clear.
IMO it's better than asking questions on here about one tiny section.

Heres a page that has pretty much all of that on it:www.aboutdebian.com/network.htm

Hi guys, maybe im a little late with this topic. Maybe someone could try to help me. I dont have a router, i connect straight through cable I tried ipconfig/release and renew thingy but i get the same ip back, then i tried with SMAC and it worked in the begining and then it suddenly stoped working. Now, every time i change my MAc adress my modem wont connect to internet. Help!

close.... please.... wow. I gaurantee almost all if not all these people are just trying to get around a ban of some sort, and dont deserve the help...

No, im not banned anywhere. Im just scared cause people can see my ip even if im talking to them through MSN, so because of security reasons i want to change my ip. I have a static one of course so it would be helpful. If you dont know how to help just say it, dont invent some excuses like those cause im not banned, why should i be and where? I dont play no games like this guy does...

umm, did you read the prior posts ????

omg, jesus, alright, then dont help me. ..sigh..

tom_3 wasn't being disrespectful but this topic is pretty much well covered ta death in the previous posts and there are further links in said posts if more info is needed. If your IP can't be seen your PC can't 'talk' to another one, unless you are involved in National Security or something I wouldn't worry about it.

yes,what he said

so changing that will eliminate the ability to see it? nope, point made... definately needs to be closed.

Hey I need some help with re-seting my IP Address (And yes I have read every post in this topic)

I got banned from a site (www.surfjunkie.com)... Didn't bother me at first. Figured i got caught using a automatic refresher, fair enough... I'd just sign up for a new account but it seems they have blocked my IP from logging in or making any new accounts on their site

I have One way cable and I'm sharing my connection with an Imac through a 3com Office Connect Ethernet Hub 4 (Imac is the host)

I would regularly just use a proxy but the site also blocks Proxies.

I've Tried doing Iprelese but it just grabs the same IP address. Ii also tried spoofing my MAC address as recommended but that disabled the internet until i removed the Spoof

I know that a possibility is to call up my ISP and ask them to renew it. But i don't want to have to do that

Regards,
Indigo

Step 1 : Run --> Cmd Type "Ipconfig /release"

Step 2 : Go to your tcp/ip properties (right click on my network places, select 'properties' from the list)

go to the properties of the local area connection (again, right click, properties)

double-click on internet protocol tcp/ip.

Step 3 : Click "Use the following IP Address" and put in 10.1.1.1 and hit tab (should fill in 255.0.0.0 in the field below, if not... do so manually)

Step 4 : Click Okay and Okay Again until you get back to the "Network Connections" folder

Step 5 : Go back to TCP/IP Settings. and set it to "Retrieve Ip Address Automatically

Step 6 : Go back into the command line and type "Ipconfig /Renew"


This worked for me :-p

Since there are legit reasons that people want to change their IP addresses, this topic won't be closed. BUT: If there IS a discussion that is started on changing one's IP address to get around a ban, the topic WILL be locked. Also, if it drags on too to much senselessness it''ll be closed as well.

True, many people probably do change their IP addresses to get around a ban, but, with newer security measures out, many places that ban IP addresses will also ban GUIDs and even MAC addresses, so an IP address change will do nothing.

Also, PLEASE do not ask how to change your IP address without first reading earlier posts COMPLETELY. The posts should be more than enough to help you reset your IP address.

If you do run into a problem or the posts don't seem to be working for you, don't just say something simple like "Ah! It no worky! Help me!" and leave it at that. Be descriptive. Tell us exactly what problem you are having IN DETAIL. That'll make it easier for members to help you.