HowTo: Change your IP Address on Cable Modem (Router Required)

[nijhal]

Well, like many of us, we are tracked by IP address by SoE. Well, my cable company just showed me a way to change your IP address at will. Heres is my guide for it.

***ATTENTION***

First and foremost, you need to also have a router of some kind. If you only have a single computer hooked to your cable modem this will not work for you.

Okay lets get started.

Step: 1
Open internet explorer and type in your routers ip address into the address bar.

This is usually 192.168.1.1 with linksys, the most popular router.

Once the username and password prompt comes up enter it in. If you have a linksys router and never accessed this information, it should be the factory default, which is...

Name: BLANK
Password: admin

Step: 2

You should have your router browser open now. If your using linksys, goto the "STATUS" tab. Under WAN you should see your outbound IP address.

Hint: it will NOT be 192.168.*.*

Write down the IP address, this is so we know it worked later.

Now you see the button marked "DHCP RELEASE" ? Click that and move on to step 3.

Step: 3

Click on the "Advanced" tab.

Click on the "Mac Address Clone" tab.

In here you will see 6 boxes. In those boxes you want to change your mac address to whatever you want. It can be a mix of letters and or numbers.

Unplug your cable modem and put in the numbers and or letters you wish

Click "Apply" and move on to step 4

Step: 4

Click on the "Setup" Tab.

Click on the "Status" tab.

Plugin your cable modem.

Wait till its completely on and all the correct lights are on and its ready to go.

Now click the "DHCP Renew" Button.

Once its done you should have a different IP address under WAN.

Congradulations, you can do this as many times as you wish to change your IP address if you are on a cable modem.

 

[Ccomp5950]

www.whatismyipaddress.com

Also tells you what your outside IP address is to those on the otherside of your router (IE: The Interblog)

 

[alabama20]

Great info! Thank you very much for posting it!

 

[Roguish]

if for some reason you don't know your password info for the router you can 'fix' that as well.

On the back of the router you should see a button or small hole kind of like the button on an old watch or the hole we use to use to force eject a 3.5" floppy. Press the button down (if it''s a hole there is a button behind it somewhere) for about 20 seconds. This resets the password, sticking with linksys the default is admin:admin I think.

 

[sacluded]

If you don't know your default router password, you can check here:

http://www.routerpasswords.com/index.asp

 

[zazoot]

actually for linkssys its (blank) username, this gets most people, they are like how come admin/admin doesnt work1?!?!??!!1111111111111111
and "admin" for the password

 

[Ccomp5950]

*hits you over the head*

Demonstrate how to get a MAC address from anything not on your subnet, and for the record, I've packet sniffed the EQclient's packets and have not found any mac address information sent through it or any reversed (like they do with spawnID) mac address.

Even if they did you can change your MAC address each reboot by going into:

Control Panal-->Network Connections

Right click on your NIC (Local Area Connection ##)
Left click properties
click "configure"
click "advanced" tab
look in the list box for "Network address" or "locally administered address"
here is where you can make up a mac address.

reboot and bam...you have a new mac address.

To test it go to another system on your network ping the original system then
arp -a

Oh and just to make sure no one goes in and changes all of their mac addresses to the same thing...if you do that...your network will fail. So don't do that, all mac addresses on your subnet have to be different.

But the way it actually works is this...

go into dos and type "Tracert www.google.com"
every "hop" is (pretty much) a router.

Each router is pushing that data packet along, and does not transfer the mac address of the previous one but sends it's own.