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Originally Posted by Moose
In the second case, the solution is to shut down your machine (not just reboot) and start it up again so that your IP resets itself to something different.
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Shutting down isn't necessary. All that does is leave you disconnected a little longer so, hopefully, the last IP you had got reassigned to someone else in the mean time.
There is another, far easier way to accomplish the same thing in Windows XP:
1) Click [START] then [RUN] and type "CMD" in the dialog box. Click [OK]
2) At the prompt, type "ipconfig /release" (without quotes)
3) Wait some reasonable amount of time
4) At the prompt, type "ipconfig /renew" (without quotes)
5) Close the CMD window
This will get you a new IP address, assuming one is available and you are on DHCP. It won't harm anything if you're not. No rebooting required.