can eye change my ipaddress?

denhamspringla · Post by **denhamspringla** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:51 am

hello everyone. i hope i am not completely crazy for doing this - i do have a reason! i have tried several different things to effectively change my ipaddress but no attempts were successful.

i feel sure that this question can answered so that i may get my one-tracked mind off of reading, reading, trying, trying - i am about to pull my hair out!!

can anyone tell me yes or no and if yes - howwwww?

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 12:26 pm

Which IP adress are you trying to change and why?
Your Internet/external IP adress, if it's Static will need to talk to your ISP.
If it's Dynamic there should be a way to get a new one.
Call your ISP.
Your Internal/LAN IP adress won't be hard.

Post by **Philip** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 4:16 pm

Most residential ISPs provide a dynamic leased IP address to customers. With cable/dsl modems, it is common for that address to remain the same for extended period of time (months/years). To change it, there are a few things you can try:

1) You can disconnect your modem for an extended period of time (to let the leased IP address expire, and eventually get reassigned to someone else).
2) Reset your modem do factory defaults - you'd have to find a reset button/prosedure, or login to your modem's web-based admin interface and look for the procedure
3) Call your ISP and ask them to reprovision you modem, or what you need to do to change the IP.

Still, it all depends on your ISP, some of them just bind an IP to the MAC address of your modem, so you always get the same one, even with DHCP, as long as it is available in the pool.

ajosh9078 · Post by **ajosh9078** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:25 am

I found the only wayto reset my external IP to the internet was to call my isp and ask them to run a refresh, they argued with me saying they do it periodicly anyway but eventualy i convinced them to do it. I told them I thought i was being DDOSed and that did the trick.

Post by **Philip** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:20 am

ajosh9078, that's great, just doesn't always work - it depends on your ISP.

xrobwx · Post by **xrobwx** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 10:40 am

denhamspringla wrote:hello everyone. i hope i am not completely crazy for doing this - i do have a reason! i have tried several different things to effectively change my ipaddress but no attempts were successful.

i feel sure that this question can answered so that i may get my one-tracked mind off of reading, reading, trying, trying - i am about to pull my hair out!!

can anyone tell me yes or no and if yes - howwwww?

Use the Tor browser or get a VPN.
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

https://openvpn.net/

wangchain · Post by **wangchain** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:53 am

If you are looking for temporary change in i.p then there are many online tools available on the internet that helps to change i.p address and the second way is already discussed in this post by Philip.