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Can I change My IP adress
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Hello is it possible to change my Ip adress
I would REALLY Really really appreciate any help,
thanks :shocking: :shocking: :banghead:
I would REALLY Really really appreciate any help,
thanks :shocking: :shocking: :banghead:
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In broad terms, you can't change your IP address yourself whilst you are connected, it's for your ISP to determine what your IP address is. However, within that, you can have either what is known as a dynmaic IP or you could have a static IP.
Dynamic IPs change. They will either change every time you connect or dial in to the internet, or they may change after 30 days, or 3 months, or whatever, but they change. However, you have no real control over the change.
Static IPs stay the same. The IP is unique to you and you will get it every time you dial in or connect to the net, regardless.
In order to change your static IP you would have to ask your ISP to do it for you.
To change (or attempt to change) your dynamic IP you could try dropping your connection and reconnecting, or using the ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew commands from a dos shell.
If your unsure if its Dynamic/static get in contact with your ISP they can tell you. dont say I need to change my IP thought, ask if it's dynamic or Static
And they are not likely to do it because almost all of the reasons for wanting to change it are ecause you've been up to something you shouldn't.
Of course, if you change your ISP you will get a different IP address
Stand by who you are and your IP, if you want to do something in public then be prepared to stand by it.
But then your ISP may well have noticed that anyway.
There are always proxy servers you can use to hide your IP but their often quite slow, slow unless you pay for a fast, private server. The thing I like about proxy software like The Proxomitron is the fact that you can strip HTTP referrer headers and hide your O/S, if I could find away of doing it without using crappy proxies I would be more than happy.
opera allows you to specify your headers, I believe.