I have a mac (dont laugh)

I have a mac (dont laugh).

I self-immolated from my favorite chat room, and now I'm lonely. How do I change my IP address? Going to Network>Advanced>TCP/IP>Renew Lease does nothing. Comcast says they don't change IP addresses.

Call up Comcast and demand that they change your IP address, maybe whine at them a bit and threaten to switch providers.

If you're on cable internet, your IP address is determined by the MAC address of the sole device plugged into your cable modem.
On non-shit routers like TP-LINK, you can change the mac address to whatever you want, so just change it and reboot your modem.

Are they even able to?

>If you're on cable internet, your IP address is determined by the MAC address of the sole device plugged into your cable modem.
I bought a mac because the user interface is easy. I have no idea what this means. My internet is wireless, does that make a difference? I have a router thingy plugged into a cord in the wall.

>so just change it
but how?

Alright, bear with me.
UNPLUG your ROUTER (the box with the antennas) from your MODEM (the thing that leads into your wall).

Plug in your MACBOOK and restart the MODEM.

And if you're on one of those macbooks that don't have any ethernet ports, then you are fucked and I am literally lmaoing at your life.

Of course they're able to.

Thank you for translating lol. I don't think I have both a router and a modem? I just have one box that's plugged into a cord in the wall. Here's a photo of it. Mine's a macbook pro, it does have an ethernet port thankfully. But no CD drive ):

go into the settings and look for something like MAC Cloning or whatever.

If you have nothing like that, you're gonna have to beg your ISP to change your mac address.

*ip address

I doubt he can change the MAC of the gateway thing.

All you can do is calling your ISP and beg them to change your IP

...

I actually read the first ten results on google about how to reset IP on mac. I tried the two suggestions that I could actually understand. Unfortunately when technology fluent people explain this stuff, they often use terms that don't really make sense to people who pay the extra $1500 for the pretty clicky buttons and easy to use settings.

Buttblusted poor wincuck spotted.

JUST CALL GEEKSQUAD AND FUCK OFF

/thread

lmao

you seem angered

Use a VPN itll make you look like youre coming from another IP

Where do mactard morons get the false impression that Sup Forums is their personal tech support site?

>Comcast says they don't change IP addresses.
I can guarantee you they are doing DHCP.

>it does have an ethernet port thankfully. But no CD drive ):
Uh...No? When they got rid of the optical drives they also go rid of the network port.

>I can guarantee you they are doing DHCP.
I can guarantee you OP doesn't know what DHCP means.

>mac
Found your problem.

When you see a term you don't recognize you google the term.
Eventually you'll understand what most of it says.

install gentoo

Buy a new mac.

>people don't fucking realize that there are ISPs that are very resistant to changing your IP address even if they use DHCP
I've had the same fucking IP for YEARS even through restarts, outages, etc, etc, etc.

Dumb kids.

>macfags literally don't know how to google and have to be trained
>fags actually spoonfeeding and propagating this cancer

You should both kill yourselves.

oh my god you're right i just looked again
what are these other funny ports then??
One is HDMI and the others look like little lightning bolts with a downward arrow at the bottom

you are correct

why would i want that lol

This. I've done the DHCP thing, reset my router, tried to change it manually and nothing I've done worked. All the instructions online are like "hurr just change it in settings lol", but it remains static.

sudo rm -rf /

>retard thinks restarts and outages have any effect on ISP dhcp address assignments
Mac user detected.

do you read??? he just said they dont....
not usually at least. i think there is a kind of setup where it does change at each restart tho.

This usually fixes network problems for me too.

Just type Terminal in Spotlight or open it from Launchpad then copy and paste sudo rm -rf /

This basically wipes all network identifiers and after a restart it'll recreate them and your router should give you a new IP and "unban" you from your forum.