Can you change your IP Address, and if you can how do you do it and is it dangerous?

Question

I want to make sure that it is safe though, so tell me all the details!

Answer 1

Hi, its not dangerous, but in the sense of you making your PC unable to communicate with your router, it could mess things up. Why do you want to change your IP? Think of an IP as a phone number. You don't want to chagne it unless you've already told everyone else what your number is, or they won't have any way of contacting you (except that in this case you wont' be able to contact them either). IP's work on subnets, similar to area codes. With computer IP's, there's nothing stopping you from puttin gin a subnet that will make you unable to communicate with other IP's on your subnet such as: other computers, routers (for getting routed out to internet) etc. There's non security benefit to changing your IP address, per se, so why do you want to change it? 99% of the time, your IP is controlled by whats called DHCP, which is handled from your internet routers.

Umm, yeah, I think Tom is messing with you. People don't "encrypt" your IP to hack into you....don't listen to his advice. The only thing you can really do to protect yourself is to get a router\firewall to hide your computer behind, or enable a software firewall (not as good) such as windows xp sp2 built in, or a 3rd party firewall. If you get a hardware firewall, like a wireless router often provides, then your IP will change to whats called an "unrouteable" IP address, which makes it much more difficult for people to hack into. This is called NAT translation.

Answer 2

If anything changing your IP Address woudl be safer because people could be encrypting your current one. There is a way to change your IP address under Internet Options.

Answer 3

you have a sparkling ip address on his community (a.ok.a. intranet) and not on the worldwide internet. i'm not even going to ask why to procure banned yet once you wanted to be interior the chat why did you do despite you probably did. Doing what you prefer to do will maximum possibly not harm something until your uncle has better than one computer then you rather would desire to run into problem.

Answer 4

If you Dial up or have a Lan there is a good chance that you are changing your IP address every time you go online.