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    IP Address Advice

    Is it possible to change your IP address? I am with NTL. would they change it for me? Thanks

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    I believe that NTL/Virgin Media use dynamic IP addressing, so rebooting your router a couple of times should gain you a new IP. Why do you want to change it, out of interest?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Splash View Post
    I believe that NTL/Virgin Media use dynamic IP addressing, so rebooting your router a couple of times should gain you a new IP. Why do you want to change it, out of interest?
    Quite often that will make no difference. The IP addresses are leased so until your lease runs out, you're stuck on my Dynamic BT broadband connection the leases seem to be about a week.
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    If you're having problems your ISP might release the IP before it's due to expire, but usually you just wait until the lease expires... and then there's a chance you'll pick up the same one again... depends on how the DHCP server hands out IPs (LIFO/FIFO/other).
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    Wasn't it a case in the past that you could just not use your internet for 24 hours (keep the line completely dead) and when you reconnected the DHCP server would assign a new IP addy for you? I have seen this suggested numerous times around the web.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Koolpc View Post
    Is it possible to change your IP address? I am with NTL. would they change it for me? Thanks
    Use ipconfig /release, wait for a good few minutes, then try ipconfig /renew. Depending on how the DHCP server is set up, it should give you a new IP if the old one is grabbed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    Use ipconfig /release, wait for a good few minutes, then try ipconfig /renew. Depending on how the DHCP server is set up, it should give you a new IP if the old one is grabbed.
    That'll get you a new internal IP from the router, but won't give you a new external one from the ISP.

    I usually login to my router and disconnect the PVC and reconnect - that gets me a new IP from Virgin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    That'll get you a new internal IP from the router, but won't give you a new external one from the ISP.

    I usually login to my router and disconnect the PVC and reconnect - that gets me a new IP from Virgin.
    I wasn't assuming there was a router involved. That might not always work, proper DHCP server's keep a record of the lease, unless the client explicitly releases the lease it'll be yours until renewal time (which is quite high with NTL from what I remember).
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    I'm pretty sure Virgin are using NTL in my case, and there's no lease time at all - I get a new IP each time.

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    They might be using NTL's network for IP tunneling, but I'm pretty sure they'd have their own IP pool, and thus their own DHCP server. But I could be wrong of course.
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