Changing IP Address

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