Looking for some friendly help here. My son and his friends had my IP address banned from a website for a yet unknown reason. I have used the site frequently and now I cant log in even using my own PC. I have a cable connection LAN and a Linksys router to three PC's. I do not know much about this but am hoping one of you posters or IPDetective could help me out. If their is anyway I can change my IP myself please show me how. Any ideas on how i can have it changed will also be very helpful to me. I do really miss surfing that site. I tried a few things I found on the net but not much seem to work consistently.
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Can I change my IP address myself?
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The banned address would be your public IP that applies to all the machines behind your router. This is probably given to you by your service provider. You might be able to release this IP in your router settings, then wait a while before renewing - You might get a different one. But depending on how it was banned, the site may have banned the entire block of addresses that your ISP gives out, in which case a new one from the same block won't help.
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Yes changing ISP's would certainly get you a different IP address (as well as possibly hardware, e-mail address, cost). But wouldn't it be easier to just find & correct the problem with that particular web site (or your son). If you change ISP's what would prevent this from happening again?
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