If i Release and Renew my IP Will i get a new IP?

Question

Ok someone said i should Go to CMD and release my ip wait 60 seconds and renew it. I got a few questions will this give me a new ip i have road runner. Also do i need to type anything in like sign into a account to get my internet back when i renew or will ti just come back?

Answer 1

Lease time. When you get an IP address, you're given a lease on it, just like renting an apartment or leasing a new Civic from the Honda dealer. The lease says that this is yours for a certain amount of time. With an apartment, you might have a 1 year lease, where that is your apartment for the year, no matter what. With a car, you might have a 3 year lease, where you get to have that car for 3 years, no matter what. Same thing with ip addresses. You get a lease, usually 7 days or more, where you will get that ip address for those 7 days, no matter what. In order for your connection to continue working, you have to renew that lease before it expires. Your computer will try to renew the same ip address, since its currently yours anyway. SO while your lease time might be 7 days, in reality, you could have the same ip address for months at a time. You can certainly do an ipconfig /release to get rid of it, when when you do ipconfig /renew, it will renew your current lease with the same ip address you've always had.

Answer 2

Depends on how your ISP has his DHCP server set up. Today Most DHCP servers have the MAC Address of your modem on file and will assign the same IP to that MAC Address.



MAC address is a Hardware address, nothing to do with Apple.



There is no need to worry about IP address. They can't be traced back to you anyway.

If you are being blocked from some web sites use a PROXY Server.



IP address can only be traced back to the DHCP server and not to the user. Only your ISP can tell who is using his IP's and that takes a court order.

Answer 3

Depends if you have DHCP enabled or not.

If you have DHCP enabled, yes you will get a different IP address.

If you don't have it enabled, you will get the same IP.



To check if DHCP is enabled on Windows, open cmd.exe (Windows Command Prompt) and type ipconfig /all

Answer 4

yes u will get new ip and after u renew it u won't need to do anything it will come alone