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Re: Can i get a New IP?
said by ComcATT  :
Ip addresses are based on the mac address of the NIC card in your computer or WAN mac of your router. Lease times on these are supposed to be 4 days. If you disconnect the device from the modem for 4 days, your lease will not be able to renew itself and essentially, it could be taken by someone else.
Unplugging the modem will not change your IP address.\
If you leave the modem unplugged over 7 days, then the modem's IP lease may be lost, and new modem ip will be given, but because the mac address of your network card is the same, it will still pull up the same IP address.
I have changed my IP the way I describe pretty often for various reasons... worked within an hour every time just about. A couple times I've had to let it go overnight befor eit would grab a new IP. I have had other members here do it this way, and it worked just fine for them. Don't know what else to say except works for me! 
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