Changing your IP address

[Modee]

The basics:
with cable modem, turn your modem off overnight, and you should get a new IP address. Some software may enable you to do this without turning the modem off.

If the new IP address does not show up overnight, wait a few days and try again. You will get a new IP address.

If you have a ROUTER (such as Airport) in the mix, the router may require some software tinkering to get it to release the old IP address and accept the new one from the modem, or you may need to disconnect the router for a while and connect the router directly for a while.

[Modee]

Dial Up - apparently dial up gets a new IP address every time it connects but I would verify with something like
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

[Modee]

I use Macintosh, but I found that setting it manually does work if you want to try that. You must know the proper entries for IP, subnet mask, router address, DNS servers, etc. - everything.

[Modee]

I think there is no way to permanently change your MAC address, no? Just to "spoof" it i.e. change it until the computer is restarted?

As far as getting an IP address in another town, that is proxy territory
Proxies, TOR, VPN, Hide your IP - All bad for EBAY and PayPal

[Modee]

The only way you could reset that IP address is if you could get to whatever modem is supplying it, and turn it off overnight and of course you SHOULD never have the ability to do that. Think about it.

[Modee]

Sometimes much more than the last few digits change. But even a one digit change will suffice for EBAY purposes.

[Modee]

I don't think a second cable modem on the same account necessarily results in a different IP address. Try it and let us know. Of course you have to let the cable company know and get the modem authorized.

[Modee]

I had this one EBAY account going. One day I logged into it at an IP address that something like a YEAR ago, maybe eight months I had been using regularly on my old old account long suspended. And, since this was on a computer where the cookies were never cleaned and no one else EVER had logged onto EBAY on it...yes, toss that into the mix too.

Four days later...wham! suspended.

So, OH YEAH just logging into the wrong IP once can kill ya'.

[Modee]

That is one way to change your ISP address - switch between DSL and cable modem at the same address - but very extreme, and costly. However, should you get suspended again, then what are you going to do?

[Modee]

My experience is with cable. Believe me, it took quite some time for me to figure out how to change my IP address, because I am Macintosh and especially because I use a wireless Apple router. For whatever reason Airport does NOT like to let go of its old IP address.

So if I could overcome the issues of a router that will NOT allow the MAC address to be changed, anyone could change his IP address.

Now, how easy is it to change IP address with DSL? Can it be done? If so, then I would MAYBE advise having BOTH cable and DSL but only if:

1) You are selling so much that being down even one day (down as in suspended off EBAY), while waiting for a new IP on your cable or DSL (so you can start up with a new or backup EBAY account), will cost you some serious coin.

2) If whatever method you have now (cable or DSL) takes quite some effort and time to change IP address, as in, even more than 24 hours.

With both I suppose you could switch between one or the other in a flash, and have backup EBAY accounts ready to go created on both ISPs.