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Ripemanew1

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Can someone please tell me how I can go about changing my IP through the DSL router my ISP provided. I think my address is static and have read somewhere that it may be possible to get a new one by releasing it through the router? Then waiting overnight. Will this actually work or is there another way to insure/improve the chances I'll get assigned a new ip?

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These are the options inside the routers address

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LAN
NAT
Security
Parental Control
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DNS
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Certificate
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If your ISP give you a static IP i think is no way to change it outside to contact your ADSL provider technical departmet to ask them for a change.

When you could change the IP is when you have a dinamic one from the service provider, usually they give the same to you, but sometimes you could "force" a Ip change depending on the ip asignation politics.

What Ravi Gagan post is only to change you internal network router ip, not the ip that you are using to exit to internet.

A option could be to use a proxy service to change ip.

 
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Thats what I've been reading but there's gotta be a way inside the modem/router they provided to at least possibly get their servers to potentially reassign my ip and give me a new 1? The provider is Windstream.
 
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I'm not sure about Windstream specifics but usually when you have a static Ip you have that Ip fixed on the provider side of the line and you use it as a configuration on your side, you could use any router or pass thru any circustance on the line and still have the same ip (that's a positive effect and is what people usually seek on the statics Ips).

When you could get a new ip is when you have a negotiation between your your router and the adsl provider (think in a local network with dinamyc ip, on power on you negotiate the ip you will use and usually get the same that the last session but could change if you use static ip is no negotiation or the ip you put is valid or the network will not run) but with static ip you just use the fixed ip as a configuration on your side of the router.

Is like if you want to use another user/password, you could change it in your router configuration if you want but probably will not work because the other part is seeking for your old one and will not recognized the new one.
 
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If your IP is static, then you CAN’T change it without contacting your ISP. Although not impossible, it is very rarethat an ISP would assignyou a static IP without some sort of increased level of service like a business account. However, an ISP can set a lengthy lease time for your IP address and make it look like you’ve assigned a static IP. If you have a long lease time on your IP then you may not be able to change your IP address without leaving your modem or router unplugged for a long period of time (more than 8 hours), or withoutcloning your MAC address,
The private IP address is set on the router configuration section where you define and set up the private subnet. If you do not understand subnets, it is best you leave this alone.
 
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If you truly have a static, the only way is to ask your ISP. If you don't have an actual static IP address (far more likely), then unplugging the router for a time may or may not change it. When you plug it back in, their server may say "Oh, there's that router again. Let me give it the same address it had yesterday."

There is no way to force change what their server gives you.

But why do you want to do this?
 
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Tbh I don't enjoy getting cross banned between video games for hax.
 
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You did read the posting rules here, right? http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28834-42-read-first
"Violations - It violates the Tom's Hardware Rules of Conduct if you engage in any of the following activity:"
"Promote or encourage activity which is illegal, such as hacking, cracking, scamming."

Even if it were possible, and it really isn't, it is against Forum rules to assist you with this.
Maybe if you didn't try to hack the game servers, you wouldn't be banned.

Closing this.
 
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