How To: Change Your IP In Less than A Minute
1. Click on “Start” in the bottom left hand corner of screen
2. Click on “Run”
3. Type in “command” and hit ok
You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.
4. Type “ipconfig /release” just like that, and hit “enter”
5. Type “exit” and leave the prompt
6. Right-click on “Network Places” or “My Network Places” on your desktop.
7. Click on “properties”
You should now be on a screen with something titled “Local Area Connection”, or
something close to that, and, if you have a network hooked up, all of your other
networks.
8. Right click on “Local Area Connection” and click “properties”
9. Double-click on the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” from the list under the”General” tab
10. Click on “Use the following IP address” under the “General” tab
11. Create an IP address (It doesn’t matter what it is. I just type 1 and 2
until i fill the area up).
12. Press “Tab” and it should automatically fill in the “Subnet Mask” section
with default numbers.
13. Hit the “Ok” button here
14. Hit the “Ok” button again
You should now be back to the “Local Area Connection” screen.
15. Right-click back on “Local Area Connection” and go to properties again.
16. Go back to the “TCP/IP” settings
17. This time, select “Obtain an IP address automatically”
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18. Hit “Ok”
19. Hit “Ok” again
20. You now have a new IP address
September 8th, 2008
There’s a much easier way to do this.
First of all, don’t run command. Run cmd. CMD is the Windows XP command line interface. Using “command” is a bad habit, as it doesn’t support everything that cmd does.
Here are the command lines to do all that:
ipconfig /release
netsh interface ipv4 set address name=â€Â†source=static address=192.168.0.2 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1
netsh interface ipv4 set address name=â€ÂLocal Area Connection†source=dhcp
ipconfig /renew
This way you can put all four command lines in a batch file and run it whenever you want rather than constantly having to take all those steps.
September 11th, 2008
and for what should this worth to? it would be much more interesting how to change the external ip adress…
September 11th, 2008
Why not just ipconfig /release hit enter
then ipconfig /renew. Theres no need to make a static?
March 30th, 2009
won’t this just change your local ip address and not the one you have with your service provider.