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points by cowlevel 3 days ago | 0 comments
Just restart your home router to rotate your IP address.
[–] qlte 3 days ago
That is entirely ISP dependent and many don't actually work like that. Your cable modem gets a specific IP for as long as Comcast or whoever sees fit, restarting does nothing on the WAN side.
[–] consp 3 days ago
In my case a downtime of over 4 hours will switch it. Might just be lease time doing its job.
[–] Denatonium 2 days ago
On cable ISPs, oftentimes, changing the router's WAN interface's MAC address and then rebooting the modem will get you a fresh IP address, but rebooting the modem without first changing the router's WAN MAC address will get you the same IP address.
[–] drewnick 3 days ago
True, I've had the same IPv4 address since 2018 on Spectrum despite rebooting at least 10 times.
[–] prmoustache 3 days ago
This is simply called the dhcp lease time. Restarting has never forced a change of ip on a system using a dhcp client.
[–] theGeatZhopa 3 days ago
It depends on the DHCP part and your provider lease time. When you access the Internet through a modem and landline, it's an highly dynamical system, where it's difficult to guarantee every caller/user gets its own IP. Especially when IP sharing is used among the clients. Even more difficult it is with the mobile Internet. It's a constant connection loosing/reconnecting. Actually resetting and freeing up IPs for new devices, the whole time. With cable Internet (the TV cable) one is having a kind of stationary access point. The network provider can see it's topology and it never changes once a leafe has joined the network. I typically have the same access creds over months. Even when I restart my cable modem, it's still the same IP. When I was on modem, I could get a new IP every second of I wanted. Now I have to think twice, because I just can't get a new IP, even if is forcedly, not.
[–] proxyscore 3 days ago
Doesn't work like that, only on mobile phones you can toggle airplane mode to get a new ip assigned and cgnat makes sure mobile ips are "trusted" , but they fingerprint you beyond ip address