How do I change my IP address?

Question

Living in Korea the IP that DHCP assigns to my computer is preventing me from accessing a lot of american web sites. How can I change this without assinging a static IP?

Answer 1

Disconnect from your internet connection, wait a few minutes, and then re-connect. If you're lucky then you should be assigned a different IP address. Whether or not it will make any difference in accessing the websites you want to access is another matter...

Answer 2

Disregard everything these idiots are saying. They bottom line is, you don't. IP address assignments are made regionally by IANA. This is done in such a way that routes are summarized. This is probably meaningless to you so I'll stop and save a few key strokes. The thing is, your IP is blocked because a ridiculous number of attacks come from your side of the planet. Very sorry, but you people have a knack for attacking us. So we block you. Tough $hit.

Answer 3

Use a proxy server. There are several guides on how to use Google as a proxy server to circumvent firewalls and, in your situation, to access content from another nation. There are other proxies but this one is straight forward and simple. This is from O'Reilly website (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/4807). I was afraid you couldn't access the site so here it is:


Ok, let's start from the beginning. We all know that Google is more than a search engine; we do use it as provider for email, mapping, news and many other services. Google is now also a free proxy service. Proxy is a device that stands between a PC and the internet, providing all the connections to the world wide web. What a proxy does is to receive all data from a requested site, so when you access web pages all data come from proxy.

What's the purpose for Google as a proxy? We often use office/school/university connections, usually those services are set to provide more safety, blocking the access to undesidered web sites (the "black list"). What you can do now is use Google translator service (language tools) as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection!

You just need to type the following URL:

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com
(www.forbiddensite.com stands for the URL you need to go to...)

What you'll get is the translation (english to english!) of the page you want to see... your connection is directed to a google.com page so this page won't be blocked (would be blocked only with google.com on the black list), no matter what's the content.

Notice that the URL has been a little hacked because the parameter "langpair"(1) is set to "en|en" (english/english) so the page is processed by Google but you can keep the original language of the page (no need to translate!). If you need another language (e.g. french) you just need to set the parameter langpair to "fr|fr" and you'll be able to read french pages in french!

A couple of examples:

english... http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=hacks.oreilly.com

italian (my own homepage!)... http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=it|it&u=www.bigthistle.altervista.org

Last but not least: if you use this trick, you're not sure to protect your privacy, this kind of connection lets you see blacklisted pages but doesn't hide your IP address. Just go to http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.whatismyip.com to see your IP is not hidden...

That's all, bye.

Answer 4

this is no longer *unlawful* - because of the fact this is no longer a possibility. this is like giving somebody a mailing handle that's no longer yours, then looking forward to them to deliver you mail. Your IP handle is the handle to which the enable you to request gets despatched. in case you conceal your IP handle, or use one that's no longer yours, you're actually not on the information superhighway.

Answer 5

go settings or control panel->network connection-> right click on your internet connection icon ->properties-> internet protocol-> properties

for no static then select obtain address automatically

Answer 6

Switch your ISP provider.

Answer 7

Apply another line. hehehe