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Hi

a few months ago an old ebay account that i had was linked to an account that i was using (before i knew about ebay stealth!!) and like clock work the account was closed and funds held for 180 days :mad2:

I was using a 3 dongle at the time but recently changed to Virgin media wifi.

A few days ago i got an email from paypal that the funds could now be sent to my bank account.. So without thinking i logged onto my paypal account and sent the money to my bank account.

I have just got everything in place to open a new Paypal/ebay account (address, bank account ect..) but was thinking to be on the safe side should i change my ip again seeing that i logged into paypal to send the money to my account??

Any advice in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi Mac.fee, yes you will need to keep changing your IP address if you are going to be logging into different accounts otherwise you will link them and lose them.

I was on virginmedia's cable broadband last year before I started using mobile broadband and I remember I had to change the MAC address of the cable router (not modem) to generate a new IP address, otherwise you can end up with the same IP address for months.

There is a tutorial on this forum that gives you a step by step guide to doing this, do you have the netgear wifi router? The white one?

I dont know how to link to other peoples posts but this is the guide I used:

08-01-2009, 12:57 AM
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How to change IP address if you have a ROUTER and a CABLE MODEM
To begin with, this applies to cable modems connected via the ethernet port to a router.
DOES NOT APPLY TO USB CONNECTIONS. DOES NOT APPLY TO MODEM CONNECTED DIRECT TO NETWORK ADAPTER.
If you plug your modem into your PC via USB, stop doing that. You lose speed and you give away secrets.

Your cable modem gets IP based on the MAC of what it is connected TO, not the MAC of the modem itself.
If your ISP has assigned you a STATIC IP address, you're stuck with it. It's not common for them to do that, though.

If you are looking for the walkthrough for Cable Modem Connected directly to NIC:
How to change IP address if you have a CABLE MODEM connected to your NIC


[begin modem/router]
01a. Goto IP Chicken - Whats my IP address? ip address lookup and write your current ip address down.
02a. Change the MAC ID for the ROUTER.
02b. Open your browser and enter the information to access the web-setup to your router (usually http://192.168.1.1)
You can find this in your router manual or by viewing the status of your ethernet. It is your default gateway.
02c. You may get a popup asking for login name and password. If you didn't change it, try admin admin or admin and blank.
Different routers have different factory default login/password. Google 'router default password <your brand>'.
03a. Look around in the setup for the option for MAC address. Some routers have many MAC addresses. you need WAN MAC.
If you only find one MAC setting, obviously that's the one you want.
04a. Do NOT choose to clone any MAC already in your system. Change the numbers in the last 2 pairs as you wish.
MAC is in this format - xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx - and the first 4 sets need to stay as they are. The last pairs change.
You can make those any hex numbers between 00-FF. Set this manually. Don't CLONE anything.
05a. After you change, you need to save the settings. So click save.
06a. You can either reboot the router or you can Release DHCP then Renew DHCP from the router, if you see the option.
07a. Regardless of what you did for 06a, unplug and replug your MODEM while the router is still doing it's thing.
08a. Goto IP Chicken - Whats my IP address? ip address lookup and compare it to what you got from 01a. It should be different.
If it is still the same, either you missed a step or your IP is STATIC.
[end modem/router]

NOTES:
001 You can go back to a previous IP by changing your MAC back to what it was for that IP, up to a point. After a few hours, you can't get it back. Some ISPs hold it in reserve for 24 hours. Some for 1 hour. Orion has a great thread going for this. See HOW TO: Change Cable Modem IP Addresses to CONTROLLED NUMBERS

002 Different routers put the MAC on different pages. It's in there somewhere.

003 Every network device has a MAC address. Do not set the router MAC to be identical to any other MAC in your system. You will get collisions which may freeze your system or may cause your modem to go into a reboot loop. It's very annoying. It may lock you out of your router.

004 For DSL, go see ebayhateluv's excellent thread here **DSL MODEM + LINKSYS ROUTER**- HERE'S How to change ip address!!
Last edited by Vicvelcro; 08-01-2009 at 09:17 PM.

Like I said Mac.fee, this worked for me a year or so ago and I know a most people on Virginmedia have the same equipment so it ought to work now. One thing I'd suggest though is before you change anything just keep a record of what your original configuration was incase you need to go back to it. If you start changing your MAC address and it goes wrong then you wont get your details back unless you've recorded them. Good luck!

Hi Johnny

thanks for the responce. No i have the new virgin black hub. I will look into how to change the MAC address now.. Not the most advanced in computers so might get a friend to sort that out for me to be on the safe side! Thanks again Johnny!

Cheers for the instructions!

Right, if you're not that tech-savvy getting someone who is more competent might be a good idea. Is it one of these new virginmedia super hubs, the ones that kinda stand upright?

Its basically the same as the previous white coloured wifi routers just with a few extra whistles and bells but you can probably apply the same procedure to changing the MAC address of this hub as you could with the netgear one.

I mean I'm not massively great with PC's / modems etc but its all a learning experience and if you do manage to do it yourself and it works you'll feel like a techno-god! Its worth learning how to sort out as you could be in a situation where you're the only person there and you'll have to sort it yourself. Better to learn about it in a relaxed setting than end up having to learn about it under pressure and panicking to get back online, know what I mean?

Like I said if you record your original settings then the worst that can happen is you end up back where you started with the same IP / Mac address. However if you can complete the steps and learn how to reconfigure your routers MAC address and thus get a new IP then you can do it everytime. If you're going to be running multiple stealth accounts then you'll need to do this everytime you want to log into a different account otherwise you could link the accounts. Anyway glad to be of assistance!

Johnny

Do you know what i.p you logged in with at he time ?

Cheers johnny. A friend is going to show me how to do it incase i run into problems on my own!

Dont have a clue what ip i used when i logged in :(

I use virginmedia as well, its the white coloured wifi routers and hope I am doing it right but i would perform the ipconf:sweat:ig/release and ipconfig/renew, switch the router off and then on and I have a new IP.

What I didn't know that each day it automatically provides me with a new IP and have to change it constantly when logging into my ebay account

Hope I am doing it the correct way, I have never changed MAC addresses as I haven't got a clue about what that is.....

The new Virgin Superhub that Virgin have been sending out free to their existing customers & are being supplied to all new subscribers, have a static IP.
Changing the MAC address has no effectt on the IP address - that remains as it was. Each connected PC or laptop has it's own MAC address
Older modems connected via a seperate router will give a seperate IP address with MAC address changes.
If anybody knows how to change the IP on these superhubs we'll all be happy

Hey Johnny - if you rightclick the "permalink" hyperlink at the top right of each post and copy the link, you can paste it between some (url) (/url) (replace the ( and ) with [ and ] ) tags and it should look like this:

http://www.aspkin.com/forums/uk-ebay...tml#post305800 (your post)

P.S how do you quote square bracketed tags in a forum without them acting as the tags themselves?