Changing IP Address
1) Getting Your IP
Range:
Getting information about
your ip range is not difficult, i recomend using Neo-Trace on your own ip, but
for our test just look at your ip address, say it's 24.193.110.13 you can
definetly use the ip's found between 24.193.110.1 < [new ip] < 24.193.110.255,
don't use x.x.x.1 or x.x.x.255. To find your ip simply open a dos/command
prompt window and type ipconfig at the prompt, look for "ip address"
2) Subnet Mask, Default
Gateway, DHCP Server:
These are very easy to
find, just open a dos/command prompt window and type "ipconfig /all"
without the ", you should see something like this:
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . .
. . . . : Your Computer Name Here
Primary Dns Suffix . . .
. . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . .
. . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . .
. . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . .
. . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local
Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS
Suffix . : xxxx.xx.x
Description . . . . . . .
. . . . : NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (NGRPCI)
Physical Address. . . . .
. . . . : XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . .
. . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled
. . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . .
. . . . : 24.xxx.xxx.xx
Subnet Mask . . . . . . .
. . . . : 255.255.240.0
Default Gateway . . . . .
. . . . : 24.xxx.xxx.x
DHCP Server . . . . . . .
. . . . : 24.xx.xxx.xx
DNS Servers . . . . . . .
. . . . : 24.xx.xxx.xxx
24.xx.xxx.xx
24.xx.xxx.xxx
Lease Obtained. . . . . .
. . . . : Monday, January 20, 2003 4:44:08 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . .
. . . . : Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:43:16 AM
This is all the
information you will need for now, i sugest you either keep your dos/command
prompt window open or copy & paste the information somewhere, to copy right
click the window and select text and click once
3) Changing Your IP
Address:
To change your ip address first pick any ip you like
out of your ip range and remember it or write it down, it is usualy a good idea
to make sure the ip is dead [except for what we are going to do later on] so
just ping it via "ping x.x.x.x" and if it times out then you can use
it, now go to my computer, then control panel, in control panel select network
connections and pick your active connection, probably local area connection or
your ISP name, open that connection by double clicking on the icon in network
connections, then select properties under the general tab, in the new window
that pops up select internet protocol [TCP/IP] and click properties, it's under
the general tab, in this new window select the general tab and choose "use
the following ip address" and for the ip address enter the ip you would
like to use [the one you picked from your subnet earlier] and for the subnet
mask enter the subnet mask you got when your ran ipconfig /all, same goes for
the default gateway, now select "use the following dns server
addresses" and enter the information you got earlier, now just click ok,
test that it worked, try to refresh a website and if it works you know
everything is okay and you are connected, to make sure the change worked type
ipconfig again and the