>On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:40 GMT, Dan <d**@theman.net> wrote:
>
>>When I had a single modem I used to be able to turn it off like for 20
>>seconds and turn it back on again, and then press "connect" on the
>>Verizon icon in "Network Connections" and get a new IP number. Now I
>>have a router and things are different. Turning it off and back on
>>again doesn't work. Unplugging the router and rebooting the computer
>>does work however, but I don't want to have to do that. Does anybody
>>know how I can get a new IP while using a router? My router's a
>>Westell by the way if you want to know.
>
>Dan,
>
>Getting a different IP address, with the Verizon Internet client, would be a
>Verizon proprietary process.  With a Westell or other router, running a standard
>DHCP client, the IP address is probably assigned as a function of the MAC
>address on the router.  You COULD change the MAC address, and maybe get a
>different IP address.  But DO NOT do this blindly.
><http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/mac-addresses.html>
>http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/mac-addresses.html

>On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:50:55 -0700, Chuck <n***@example.net> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:40 GMT, Dan <d**@theman.net> wrote:
>>
>>>When I had a single modem I used to be able to turn it off like for 20
>>>seconds and turn it back on again, and then press "connect" on the
>>>Verizon icon in "Network Connections" and get a new IP number. Now I
>>>have a router and things are different. Turning it off and back on
>>>again doesn't work. Unplugging the router and rebooting the computer
>>>does work however, but I don't want to have to do that. Does anybody
>>>know how I can get a new IP while using a router? My router's a
>>>Westell by the way if you want to know.
>>
>>Dan,
>>
>>Getting a different IP address, with the Verizon Internet client, would be a
>>Verizon proprietary process.  With a Westell or other router, running a standard
>>DHCP client, the IP address is probably assigned as a function of the MAC
>>address on the router.  You COULD change the MAC address, and maybe get a
>>different IP address.  But DO NOT do this blindly.
>><http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/mac-addresses.html>
>>http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/mac-addresses.html
>
>
>Thanks for your advice. I just found out how to connect and disconnect
>with the Verizon icon even with the router though (meaning I can get a
>new IP address). I do it with a "traffic shaping" utility called
>Cfosspeed. It let's you use your browser, bittorrent program, Emule
>and other related programs without slowing each other down. A big
>problem I had before. It has a menu that says "Connect to Verizon
>Online" and "Log off Verizon Online". Now, I tried it awhile ago but
>it didn't work for changing the IP address, but since then I got a new
>version and reinstalled it, and I just retried it so something went
>right :)

>On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:13:05 -0400, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
><lanwe***@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>In news:6o01h2tu3iomi0ac5bl9alpacmma384m2e@4ax.com,
>>Dan <d**@theman.net> typed:
>>> When I had a single modem I used to be able to turn it off like for 20
>>> seconds and turn it back on again, and then press "connect" on the
>>> Verizon icon in "Network Connections" and get a new IP number. Now I
>>> have a router and things are different. Turning it off and back on
>>> again doesn't work. Unplugging the router and rebooting the computer
>>> does work however, but I don't want to have to do that. Does anybody
>>> know how I can get a new IP while using a router? My router's a
>>> Westell by the way if you want to know.
>>
>>Might I ask why you want to do this?
>
>      Curious huh? Think I'm doing something illegal? Well you're
>right! :) Ever hear of rapidshare? In case you don't know it's a
>service that let's you download anything. People are using it all over
>the place to share big files. If you have something to share, you
>upload it to them and get your own link. Then you give everyone else
>this link and they can download from it. Problem is if you want to
>download from them freely there's a 50mb limit or something and then
>you have to wait an hour to start downloading again. This is unless
>you pay for a subscription and you can download to your heart's
>content.
>       So me being so damn cheap, I wanted to know if there was anyway
>around it and found out simply that getting your IP changed will allow
>you to bypass the hour limit and you can keep on downloading :) Now, I
>haven't downloaded rapidshare stuff in awhile (there's this site I go
>to that uses them alot). I'm gonna go today and hopefully rapidshare
>hasn't beaten this tactic. Pretty hard to do I think, unless they want
>to ban for an hour everyone at the main domain of Verizon from my part
>of New York (they'd have to do this for all systems across the
>country, or even the world who do what I'm doing, they're a German
>international site, so they're used all over the world I think). Don't
>worry though, alot of people don't know this and just pay up,
>rapidshare makes a lot of money. If you're interested in their site
>it's rapidshare.de  There's others who do the same thing but
>rapidshare have become the most popular.

"Chuck" <n***@example.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:10:12 GMT, Dan <d**@theman.net> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:13:05 -0400, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
>><lanwe***@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In news:6o01h2tu3iomi0ac5bl9alpacmma384m2e@4ax.com,
>>>Dan <d**@theman.net> typed:
>>>> When I had a single modem I used to be able to turn it off like for 20
>>>> seconds and turn it back on again, and then press "connect" on the
>>>> Verizon icon in "Network Connections" and get a new IP number. Now I
>>>> have a router and things are different. Turning it off and back on
>>>> again doesn't work. Unplugging the router and rebooting the computer
>>>> does work however, but I don't want to have to do that. Does anybody
>>>> know how I can get a new IP while using a router? My router's a
>>>> Westell by the way if you want to know.
>>>
>>>Might I ask why you want to do this?
>>
>>      Curious huh? Think I'm doing something illegal? Well you're
>>right! :) Ever hear of rapidshare? In case you don't know it's a
>>service that let's you download anything. People are using it all over
>>the place to share big files. If you have something to share, you
>>upload it to them and get your own link. Then you give everyone else
>>this link and they can download from it. Problem is if you want to
>>download from them freely there's a 50mb limit or something and then
>>you have to wait an hour to start downloading again. This is unless
>>you pay for a subscription and you can download to your heart's
>>content.
>>       So me being so damn cheap, I wanted to know if there was anyway
>>around it and found out simply that getting your IP changed will allow
>>you to bypass the hour limit and you can keep on downloading :) Now, I
>>haven't downloaded rapidshare stuff in awhile (there's this site I go
>>to that uses them alot). I'm gonna go today and hopefully rapidshare
>>hasn't beaten this tactic. Pretty hard to do I think, unless they want
>>to ban for an hour everyone at the main domain of Verizon from my part
>>of New York (they'd have to do this for all systems across the
>>country, or even the world who do what I'm doing, they're a German
>>international site, so they're used all over the world I think). Don't
>>worry though, alot of people don't know this and just pay up,
>>rapidshare makes a lot of money. If you're interested in their site
>>it's rapidshare.de  There's others who do the same thing but
>>rapidshare have become the most popular.
>
> Interesting.
>
> I've played with RapidShare, back when they had a 10M limit / hour.  And I
> found
> that you can use each computer on your LAN, separately.  So it sounds like
> a NAT
> router will take care of you.  Just make sure that Verizon broadband is
> NAT
> router compatible.