Changing IP Address - Desperate (Uverse)

[CombineMan]

Hey,
I am very new here, so I apologize if I'm breaking any rules, but I am SUPER desperate for help. I've researched a bit, but to no prevail.

Here's the situation:
I need to be able to get a new external ip address weekly. I've tried most techniques of doing this, but I have ATnT Uverse Internet. The modem that is provided from them is required to get service.

Does anyone know how I can change my external ip address with Uverse?
What can I do?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I honestly cannot seem to figure out a legitimate need to change IP addresses daily.

Thus, I'm going to suggest that a mod lock this.

Have you considered a VPN service?

 

[CombineMan]

I am very superstitious when it comes to websites tracking my information so it doesnt have to be daily, but that why I need to do this is irrelevant to answering the question. I assure you its nothing illegitimate.

And I have thought about VPN, but would like to leave that option for very very very last choice.

 

[Harvey]

Try powering down your modem/interface to Uverse for a few minutes. Then, check to see if it acquires a new IP address when you power up, again. If it doesn't work, try leaving it off a bit longer, like overnight when you go to bed.

Of course, if your phone service is also through Uverse, doing this may turn it off, as well.

I'm also pretty cautious, but I don't worry about my IP address. However, I do clear my cache and cookies in all browsers. I don't do more than doing it through the browsers because they always leave something. I also go to the cache folders for each browser and delete everything in them that Windows allows deleting.

You can also clear caches from Flash player. In XP, they're found here:

Two folders under C: \Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\\Macromedia\Flash Player.

One folder under C: \Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache

If you want to go even further, you can clear your prefetch folder:

C: \Windows\Prefetch (in XP).

If you want even more, run a good registry cleaner like CCleaner which cleans almost all of the stuff I listed, above, without all the manual work.

 

[CombineMan]

Try powering down your modem/interface to Uverse for a few minutes. Then, check to see if it acquires a new IP address when you power up, again. If it doesn't work, try leaving it off a bit longer, like overnight when you go to bed.

Of course, if your phone service is also through Uverse, doing this may turn it off, as well.

I'm also pretty cautious, but I don't worry about my IP address. However, I do clear my cache and cookies in all browsers. I don't do more than doing it through the browsers because they always leave something. I also go to the cache folders for each browser and delete everything in them that Windows allows deleting.

You can also clear caches from Flash player. In XP, they're found here:

Two folders under C: \Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\\Macromedia\Flash Player.

One folder under C: \Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache

If you want to go even further, you can clear your prefetch folder:

C: \Windows\Prefetch (in XP).

If you want even more, run a good registry cleaner like CCleaner which cleans almost all of the stuff I listed, above, without all the manual work.

Thanks for your help, but I'm afraid turning it off won't work. It seems as long as the MAC address is the same, the IP will stay the same. :/

 

[ch33zw1z]

VPN service.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Why are you so paranoid?

 

[Enigma102083]

To answer your question, there is NOTHING you can do to facilitate this. Nothing at all. You want a different IP address every day? Fine. Use a free proxy. Just keep in mind there is absolutely NOTHING stopping someone nefarious from spinning up a proxy that farms personal info and passwords. Nothing at all. Your ONLY truly secure option is paying good money to a trusted and well vetted VPN service.

 

[JackMDS]

I am very superstitious when it comes to websites tracking my information.

Hmm.. this is considered one of the indicators of OCD rather than Technical issue.

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/psychology-of-superstition

 

[theevilsharpie]

Use Tor if you want to browse anonymously. Changing your IP doesn't mean shit, since many web services use cookies to track you.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Use Tor if you want to browse anonymously. Changing your IP doesn't mean shit, since many web services use cookies to track you.

I use Firefox, set "Do not track", set custom history, no 3rd-party cookies, 1st-party cookies set to prompt.
That still doesn't block Flash cookies or Etags though.

 

[zebrax2]

He could ask lxskllr about on how to deal with cookies as i believe he has a lot of knowledge about it judging from his post on the software section

 

[kevnich2]

Well, changing your IP address really would do you no practical good aside from your router receiving less traffic if an IP address for some reason was suffering a DDOS attack. As far as websites tracking you, sorry dude but simply changing your IP address will help you zilch. As far as non-legit activities, your IP could change every hour and if your ISP was subpoena'd for records, they'd have every single one of them and which hour it was what IP address.

As far as your main question with how to do this, this lies totally with your provider. Most providers have changed their infrastructure so IP address changes happen very rarely, as in maybe once a year. The best way to try and change your IP manually is to leave your equipment turned off for several hours, maybe even a full day and power it back on and hope the IP you originally had was given to someone else. Seems like a lot of work for no practical results though.

 

[Savatar]

If it's just to change IPs for web traffic, you can use proxy services like hidemyass. They have a free service which will alternate between some of their IPs, so your actual IP is not revealed to the remote web server as normal. (If you allow javascript, there are still some techniques which they can use to get your actual IP, but it's not really normal for sites to do that).

You could also use Tor, which is like a proxy of proxies... but it's slow. It works, basically, by sending the web request to one of the tor servers, then another, then another, and after some number of hops it finally exits out to the requested web server.

VPN services can also do this, though you usually end up with a fixed VPN IP on their network (but at least it's not your own IP).

Keep in mind that some of these things could actually make people take more notice of you... but it does make it much harder for the remote website to track you.

None of those techniques require changing your modem's IP address (it's generally considered better to have a static IP address anyway).

Also note that in some cases, if the proxy does not obfuscate or encrypt the request to its servers, that the ISP or anyone who looks at the logs can still see exactly what sites were requested... so when you say you don't want to be tracked, keep in mind that tracking can be done at several different places using different techniques. Locally, ISP-level or some router along the way in the cloud, the remote servers/services being accessed, or even the VPN that you're using to try to get around that!

 

[QuietDad]

The only thing you can do is either log on to the modem and look for the setting for DHCP Release and DHCP renew. You release the IP address and the renew it at the modem/router and the renew it. It may take a couple of times to get a new IP address. If after a few tries this doesn't work, the next experiment is to leave the modem off/unplugged for the night and plug it in in the morning. If after doing this you still have the same IP address, then your ISP is retaining the lease on their side and it would require a call to tech support to have them release it. There is no easy way to just do it.

 

[SecurityTheatre]

If turning it off and doing a renew doesn't get a new IP, it's entirely possible they have a static or semi-static pool, or a reservation system that won't allow you to arbitrarily get a new IP.

Like everyone said, if powering down overnight doesn't fix it, you're probably out of luck. The MAC address is used to validate the service, so you can't exactly change that....

 

[VirtualLarry]

LOL. Just wait until OP gets IPv6, and learns that your IP address is derived from a prefix and your MAC address.

 

[Berliner]

Have you tried asking your provider if they can change you to a dynamic ip?