Sam Nichols Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Basically I know it is possible to change your ip to anything you want..And im pretty certain its very very easy!I am NOT interested in proxy sites, proxy switchers, proxy scanners etc etcI just want my IP to appear on sites as an IP of my choosing.Im trying to do it through command prompt at the moment but its not working any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Do you mean the IP of your computer inside your network, or the IP of your network? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted November 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 The IP of my PC..so that when i access a site instead of it showing the ip that im on now, i can choose my own ip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Manual Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 IG by any chance?I didn't turn up to work till 1:30 today. I have no idea why I felt so terrible this morning. What did you put in that last can Samuel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted November 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Haha I knew you'd poke your nose in!I was sick several times when I got home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 So you want sites to view you with an ip address of your choosing? If that's the case then I'm afraid there's no option to change it to what you want. You can change it, but not to something you specify. Its a randomly assigned code from a big long list of them that have been bought by your service provider. If you request a new one they take one of the ones not being used and assign it to you. You can force this by unplugging your modem if you have a provider that assigns a dynamic IP address, but if its a static one the only way to change it would be to get on the phone to your service provider as your ip address won't change unless they make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted November 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 (edited) Is their no way of hiding your ip then?So making it appear as if your on an ip that you arent?Im back on :@ Edited November 18, 2008 by nichols_sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2sixstreet Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Cant you go into your Network Connections and change the properties of the internet protocol? You need to make sure your IP isnt selected automatically and it has to be within a certain range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Use proxy servers for the sites you can't access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted November 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 As I said in OP I'm not interested in proxys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicP Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 As I said in OP I'm not interested in proxys.Why not?Surely that is the only way to do what your asking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Exactly my thoughts. Your IP can be changed by a proxy, but the original one will always come from a range of addresses assigned to your ISP and subsequently your region.So unless there's a really clever way of doing this, a proxy is the only way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Dynamic IP springs to mind...Surely this topic will lead to bad things, IE Banned people making new IP addresses to re join THIS site. Why not use Google ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2sixstreet Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I had an IP conflict between two machines (not networked but running from the same router). They were static so thats the reason I had the conflict (assigned to the same IP). A new PS3 accessing the router may have also been confusing things. I changed them both quite easily through Network Connections. I can explain it better if this is what you are after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I had an IP conflict between two machines (not networked but running from the same router). They were static so thats the reason I had the conflict (assigned to the same IP). A new PS3 accessing the router may have also been confusing things. I changed them both quite easily through Network Connections. I can explain it better if this is what you are after.As in going to http://192.168.1.1/ (or your default) and letting your ISP do it ?I PM'd him 4 ways of doing it and didn't get a reply so he's either a gay or has done it now and can't connect to the internet because he's owned his internet settings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2sixstreet Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 As in going to http://192.168.1.1/ (or your default) and letting your ISP do it ?I PM'd him 4 ways of doing it and didn't get a reply so he's either a gay or has done it now and can't connect to the internet because he's owned his internet settings I think thats DHCP? You obviously know more than I do so I'll be quiet now. Since he hasnt responded we'll just chat amongst ourselves. If he's still connected i'm sure you'll get a response to your heterosexually challenged remark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totaltrials Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 (edited) I had an IP conflict between two machines (not networked but running from the same router). They were static so thats the reason I had the conflict (assigned to the same IP). A new PS3 accessing the router may have also been confusing things. I changed them both quite easily through Network Connections. I can explain it better if this is what you are after.Explain it a bit more. I changed one of my computers to a static IP, then gave my other computers different IPs so they didn't conflict. When I set up my PS3 to get online I once again had to set up a new ip address.You can get info on how to do it all on portforwardAltho I'm not sure you already know this and this isn't what you mean, but there you go.If it's your isp ip you need to change, then I think that's been covered by other people in this topic, it's all down to your provider I think.EDIT: Oops, I've just realized 2sixstreet didn't post the topic, got confused then. Edited November 18, 2008 by totaltrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Explain it a bit more. I changed one of my computers to a static IP, then gave my other computers different IPs so they didn't conflict. When I set up my PS3 to get online I once again had to set up a new ip address.Or (you probably know this), you could just change your router to auto-assign IPs using DHCP. You can change your internal IP to anything between 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.255.255, as far as I remember they're 'reserved' for internal networks.You can't change your external IP (the one websites see) to whatever you want, as once you request 'the internet' for something, it would never know how to find your computer again.EDIT: here comes Chris.. probably about to prove me wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-Stop Junkie Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 You can't choose any IP address for your PC to appear on the Internet as. If you picked an address that wasn't yours, all the return traffic from the website would go to that address and and never reach you.As someone's pointed out, ISPs get assigned blocks of IP addresses, which are then usually broken down by geographic region to aid routing, and then your broadband box gets assigned an address by a DHCP server. If you try and pick up a new IP address - either by switching your broadband box off for a couple of days, or forcing a re-request somehow - yours will either change by a handful of digits on the final octet only, or you'll get the same one again because the lease for your broadband box's MAC address hasn't expired.Can you guess what I do for a living? If you want to make your IP appear substantially different, it's a proxy.Edit: Tom is basically right. You can run any IP address you like internally, it's just that 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/16 are protected by RFC1918 as not replicated on the Internet. If you were to use an address internally that is on the Internet, you wouldn't have a problem unless you ended up trying to access a website (or service) hosted on that IP or subnet, and your router would think it was hosted locally and you'd be screwed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Are you a network admin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-Stop Junkie Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Are you a network admin God?Edited for Ghost Busters.Odd. IMDB says that it's 'Ghost Busters' while Wikipedia has it as simply 'Ghostbusters'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 It will always be one word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 This came up on a forum a while ago - a software tool came to light called IPshark; this was found to be riddled with viruses and all sorts of nasty things, so for the curious amongst you, I wouldn't download this software if you happen to stumble over it on your IP changing journeHowever, if you're that desprite, you could ring you're ISP and request a static IP address - however there will be an additional fee/subscription for this. I think it's actually fairly cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 I can change my IP from static to dynamic as much as I want, I can also re-assign my external IP but only with a randomly generated one from a block as mentioned before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-Stop Junkie Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Static IPs are only really needed if you want to host a server of some sort. These days with always-on broadband, your IP address will change once in a blue moon. Static IPs are also less than ideal if you want to chop and change your IP on a regular basis! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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