Hi, I’ve virgin media broadband and I want to get a new IP. I restarted router from admin interface but it didn’t give me a new IP. How do I get a new IP for sure?
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Virgin media broadband’s IP address is sticky. It doesn’t give a new IP when you reboot router. Rebooting router from admin interface will hardly every give you a new IP address. The sure way to get a new IP address is to switch off router overnight or switch it off for longer duration.
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Switch off router, disconnect cable and leave it overnight. No guarantee though but works for me.
Wait for them to carry out maintenance in your area or pray for an outage. Either of these will reset to give you a new IP address.
We are getting there 
try this
- Switch off router.
- Disconnects from mains, pull out router’s plug from mains socket.
- Disconnect all cables
- Leave it like this for 24 hours or more.
Reconnect everything and see if it gives you a new IP. If not then repeat above for even longer period.
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Extending @pete’s answer further. They have 7 days for the IP lease so I’m afraid you may have to keep it turned off for 7 days.
Well, just use a VPN and forget all the nonsense. I use NordVPN works well for short term solution.
Unfortunately, none of the above proposed solution will work. Unless they change IP, you will not be able to change it no matter what. You should get a non-fibre broadband connection or try using your mobile’s hotspot.
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If restarting the router didn’t work, try disconnecting it for a longer period, like 30 minutes to an hour.
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I’ve already tried that. I don’t think switching off router will work. Virgin Media Broadband is a fibre broadband and most of the broadbands have sticky/static/dedicated IP.
Recently I observed that my IP was changed, it wasn’t me doing anything but them doing something. May be some work done in the local area or something.
We can’t change IP address from our side no matter what you try.
Guru you are spot on, I’ve also come to conclusion that we can’t change IP address from our side.
Problem with NordVPN and any other VPN is that it is slow and most of the well known website identify it and then dmop captcha and other security measures to login which become PITA. This is not a solution, at least in my case.