I'll show you how I change my IP address on demand as well as several other ways you can change an IP address for free on any device. IP addresses are used to track your location and what you do online, so change your IP address regularly!
This might seem obvious, but you can get a different IP address by disconnecting from whatever network you’re currently connected to and connecting to a different one. You can switch to a different wifi network, for example, or switch from wifi to a mobile data connection if you’re on a smartphone.
How to change IP address of your smartphone?
If your smartphone is on a WiFi network, changing your IP address will only change private IP address of the smartphone and the public IP address will remain the same. The world only sees your public IP address, so the website that you visited will view your smartphone having the same IP address even though you may have changed it's private address. To change public IP address of your smartphone, you may want to try the following.
Restart your smartphone
- Turn off your WiFi, and restart your smartphone. Your smartphone will be obtaining a public IP address from your phone service provider via DHCP, restarting your device will likely get you a new IP address. If you don't get a new IP address, you may want to try this for a few times until you get a new number.
Borrow your friend's WiFi
- Ask your friends if you can use his/her network, and if allowed connect to their WiFi network.
How to change IP address of a computer?
If you have only 1 computer at home and connects your computer directly to the Internet via an ISP provided gateway, the following method will allow you to change public IP address of your computer. However, if you're connecting to the Internet via a router, changing your computer's IP address will have no impact on how world is viewing your IP address. So, follow this step only if you're connecting your computer to the Internet directly.
Shutdown your computer for a minute and turn it back on
- Again, the common nature of DHCP is to assign the device same IP address each time it connects to the network, it's unlikely that you'll receive different address first time your restart your computer. If you restart a few times, you may get lucky and get a new IP address from your router.
How to change IP address of a router?
A router is a layer 3 networking device that connects multiple computers to the Internet. In home network with dynamically assigned IP address, a router is assigned a public IP address and all the computers connected to the router are assigned private IP addresses. When computers connected to the router visits the Internet, the world views your computer with a public IP address of your router. So, if you want the world to see you with a different IP address, you'll have to change IP address of the router. Here are a few ways to change IP address of your router.
Turn off your router for a minute and turn it back on
- The common nature of DHCP is to "remember" the device and assign you the same IP address you had before, so simply turning off your router and turning it back on will not likely change IP address. However, if you try multiple times you may get lucky and will obtain a new IP address from your ISP. If multiple tries doesn't get you a new IP address, try leaving the router turned off overnight and restart in the morning.
Reconnect your router to your ISP via administrative Interface
- Most routers allow you to disconnect from upstream ISP, and reconnect via a point-and-click from the Administrative Console. Each router vendor provides a different UI to achieve this, but once you login to the Administrative Console of the router you should be able to locate the reconnect button.
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