How do I change ip address on router?
When I hook up the internet through my wireless router it shows one ip address, and then when i hookup the internet directly to my computer it shows another.
The same ip address that shows up on the direct connection is the one i want to show up on the router. How do I do this?
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1. You need to contact your ISP to get your public IP changed. The best and quickest way to change your computer's IP address is via:Windows Key + R
Type in: cmd
Press Enter
Type in: ipconfig /release
Press Enter
Type in: ipconfig /renew
Press Enter
Wait for each one to complete, it can take a while. You will not have internet while the commands process. Good luck!
2. There would be no point in changing the ip address of your router i would stick with the default router ip address.
3. It should have done that automatically. The Ip address you have when connected to your wireless router is the private IP address(usually a 192,168.1.xx) It's used to allow your router to assign ip adresses to all your connected devices and to allow them to access the internet through the single IP address your ISP assgns to you.
youshould be able to verify when you log into your wireless router and see what the ip addresses for it are.
4. Umm, what is the "it" you're talking about? Where are you looking exactly to find the IP address? My bet is that you're just seeing the *local* IP address and the IP address that will show up is actually the same. Check at my link.
5. Windows operating systems open command prompt and type “ipconfig /release” which display the automatic it had, then “ipconfig/renew” which gets a new ip address, which will be the address space.
6. Answer is that is already assigned to your router. Explanation
This is all because of a wonderful thing call NAT. What NAT does is it allows a organization, or home to have multiple clients access the resources of the world wide web through 1 public IP address. The other part of NAT is that those clients (within the organization or home) are give IPs in the private ranges of 192.168.0.0 /16 or 172.16.0.0 /11 and 10.0.0.0 /8. so when you go to access resources on the world wide web NAT translates your internal IP of say 192.168.0.100 to your public IP say 74.3.5.2.
So you see if your router has this supplied from your ISP usually through DHCP, which means yes, your public IP will change from time to time, unless your ISP gives out statics to its customers, which is usually only done for Business customers who wish to host and run WEB servers.
Questions anyone???
7. Your router give to your computer internal IP address or private IP.
It is not possible to have same IP address from the direct connection and from your router.
IP address from your the direct connection is WAN or external IP address and it is assigned to your machine from your ISP.
Internal IP address assigned from your router is needed only for machines within your network and that IP address is not traceable as external IP.
To learn more about IP addressing and find out what is internal and what external IP visit IP trackers:
http://www.ip-address.org
http://www.ipaddresslocation.org
http://www.find-ip-address.org
Hope this helps!
