how does a website know it is me?

[isogonic]

You can change your external ip through your router any time you want.

You can manually release it and get another number

thats what you said.

still awaiting your step by step instruction on how to do this via my router.

[Dv8ted2]

You can change your external ip through your router any time you want.

You can manually release it and get another number

thats what you said.

still awaiting your step by step instruction on how to do this via my router.

That is your job, not mine.

[Dv8ted2]

Check router logs on find out (if supported on yours) what your lease time is.You are really taking about what appears on the surface without understanding basics of the inner workings of such systems.

On a DHCP server, you select the scope of ip addresses that are not to be used. From there, addressed get assigned. I said it could be done. You said it could not. I am talking about network engineering, not cable systems. I also did this when I had verizon dsl and they do not use PPPOE. Now I bow out of this discussion.

[tomwil]

Not sure if it would work in your case, but whenever we have a connection problem with DHCP, we issue the "ipconfig /release" command to release the IP address from the adapter.

[isogonic]

Dv8ted2 said:

That is your job, not mine.

no dude, you said i could do it anytime. so again tell me how. i will take one time nevermind 20.

the fact is if i didnt tip you off about MAC cloning you would still be insisting i could change it via my router. so i wait for your instruction.

[jimmalenko]

Children children children ......

If you have MAC cloning available on your router, you can do it pretty much at will. It's more likely that you can do it if you have DSL or ADSL also (as opposed to cable), due to the way most ISPs are set up.

Of course there's caveats to the above.

Y'all can stop threadjacking now.