Change IP Adresses?

I had a sensitive career & would like to make tracing my location more secure. Other than proxy servers, is there a way to get my IP address changed? (I use a cable modem & a router)

 

Your IP address is usually automatically generated by your ISP. Spammers know how to do it, but I doubt anyone here would advocate it as we have enough problems with spammers as it is. Oh, yeah, anyone can find anyone, no matter what you do to your IP address, so it would be a lot of work for nothing.
My father in law was a pilot for Air America in the 60's. My wife was relaying this to one of our grandchildren on Facebook last night, and as soon as she hit the send button, it all disappeared. Very covert operations of the CIA linger on after 45 years, I guess.

 

you need to open a command prompt.

Start > Run > type "cmd" hit enter

A black window should show up,
type "ipconfig /release *Local*" hit enter
type "ipconfig /flushdns" hit enter
type "ipconfig /registerdns" hit enter

don't include the quotes of course, this should pull a new IP for you computer assuming you're using DHCP (most cable users are). With DHCP your IP address has a timeout period anyways so it changes periodically by itself.

 

All that will do is give his computer a new ip address on his local network behind his router and modem.

Like Chandler said, his ISP assigns the address to his modem. There is probably some cloaking software out there somewhere that might do what you what you are trying to achieve.

 

You might want to focus on using a secure/encrypted connection instead of changing the IP address.

 

For some cable customers, just switching of your modem for a few hours/days will get you a new IP address when you turn it back on.