How to Correctly Change Your IP Address

I have seen so many posts on the Internet, from people who want to change there IP address. Most of the time, the information they are given is wrong or not entirely correct. Follow my easy steps and you will soon be a pro.

First of all, let me tell you what an IP address is. IP address stands for, "Internet Protocol address". Basically, its a home address for your computer. When you visit websites, your IP address is given to the server. Thus, the server knows where to send the information. In a nut shell, you can think of it almost like a house address of phone number. Kinda.

Now, why would we want to change our IP address? Well, there is a slew of reasons. Sometimes, certain websites will block your IP for no apparent reason. Some on line video games require you to change your IP address every so often as well. There could be many reasons why you would want to change it, and you probably wouldn't be reading this if you didn't already need to so, lets go ahead and change your IP address.

Start out, by being directly connected to your modem. Do not use the router for now.

Open up the Command Window Prompt. This can easily be done by pressing Start, then Run, and typing CMD and pressing OK.

Once in the command prompt type "ipconfig /all". This will tell you, your current IP address.

Now simply type "ipconfig /release" . Keep the command prompt open, because we will use it again in just a moment.

Click on "Network Connections" (which is seen under your windows control panel) and right click on "Local Area Connection" and select "Properties".

Select "Internet Protocols" and once again press "Properties".

As you can see, a window has opened. Click on the tab entitled "General" and choose "Use the following IP address." and insert the value "10.0.0.1".

Press OK and then close out all open windows.. Wait 3-5 seconds, then click back to "Internet Protocols", And once again choose the "General" tab.

This time select, "Automatically assign me an IP address". Click OK.

Go back into your command prompt and type "ipconfig /all ". You will notice your IP address has changed!