Changing my ip address

I;m looking to be able to change my computers ip address when surfing the internet, is there a simple and easy way to do this and make it work all the time?

 

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If you have a "Dynamic IP" account from your ISP provider you can do it simply:

Go to "command line window" (Go to "Run" and type "cmd") and in the CLW type:
"ipconfig /release" (press enter)
"ipconfig /renew" (press enter)

You can check with "ipconfig" command before and after to be sure that it did the trick.

If you have a static IP account, it gets trickier and it depends on why do you want to change you IP.

 

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Well, I want to change it so my ip will constantly change so that I where I live won't be detected by sites so they can't pinpoint my location and use that for malicious reasons.
I think I have a static ip, not sure though.

 

No matter what IP that you are using they always know who you are and where you are as well.

 

Well, you can do it, but you will want to have several ISPs that use DHCP and a script running in the background to switch ISPs and release/renew your IP. A direct result of this is that your internet connection will be constantly interrupted.

 

renewing an IP from your ISP (if dynamically assigned) will still mean the IP is within the ISP's range of IP's.

It is possible to use "Proxies" to act as a "Middleman" between you and whoever it is you are worried about, however that can actually cause more problems than good. I'd actually suggest not using a proxy unless it's a proxy you've actually set up and you have access to the server yourself, any third-party proxies could be used to capture login details or just used for socially engineering who you are. (It's a security risk)

I'm pretty sure that sciforums also frowns on proxy usage, mainly because it doesn't just undermine the security at your end if you use one, but also could effect the site too.

 

The best way would be to go online using random proxy srevers from behind a good firewall. But why the secrecy?

 

What's wrong with privacy?

 

First of all what is privacy today? :shrug:

 

That's not how it works mate. As Stryder says, your Service Provider has a range of IP addresses allocated to them, and you get assigned one of them, and everybody knows where that range is allocated to. You can't magically get a new IP address, expect Internet traffic to be able to find it, but nobody else.

 

Most DHCP servers however will preferentially re-allocate the IP address you had previously. It keeps things simpler that way.

 

Anonymity.

 

Proxy software.

It will handle and/or greatly automate switching up IPs and etc for you.

 

frogjake, they can't actually pinpoint your location.

The reason is because every time you turn off your machine, reconnect it to the router, or connect to some other network you are assigned a new IP address.

Your service provider literally has a list of which IP's are being used and by whom and the list is always changing, when your machine turns on your IP address is then returned to the server as being empty. Then when someone else turns on their machine it may choose to assign them that IP address. Your IP address could have literally been used by thousands of other people, It's possible that I could actually be using one of your old adresses right now.

For that reason it is literally impossible for anyone to locate your address with your IP address. Here is my IP address right now: 192.168.1.67

Also, even if they could trace it, it doesn't matter what you change it to. Once you change it you then update the list on the service provider.

Changing your IP address can only change your IP address. It does not make you anonymous.


Your service provider is the only group in the private domain that has up to date access to your exact address because it is associated with your account information. But by law they are not allowed to release any of that information. And without up to date access to that list then anyone trying to trace you is literally pissing in the wind.

The only people that are allowed access is the FBI and law enforcement because they can get a subpoena for that information. But they can only access it with the approval of a judge.

So essentially there is no reason why you should worry about it.

I would suggest a proxy, but that's a potential minefield because some of them will record anything you do, such as accessing sensitive personal data.

The very best program in my opinion is called "tor", it literally scrambles the host IP address and the target IP so even if someone were packet catching and trying to watch what you were doing they wouldn't have any clue what is happening because it would make no sense.

This program can actually get you past the vast majority of web filters out there.

 

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