Unknown Speaker 0:00 How's it going, everybody, welcome back.
And today I'll be showing you guys how to change your IP address. Now, there are several methods,
you can do that. And one of the easiest methods, obviously is using a VPN. And I'll show you how
to do that in just a second. But just to mention a few other methods, if you don't want to buy VPN,
if you don't, if you don't have a VPN, if you don't want to use a VPN, resetting your router
is one of the simplest ways of changing your IP address, just turn off your router, disconnect it
from power and leave it off for a few minutes and turn it back on. And you should have an IP address
if you go to right here, what is my IP address, comm? You know, it'll give you your IP address,
and you could, you know, check it before you turn it off and check it after you turn it off and see
if it actually changed. Now what happens when you turn off your router is that you're you're
disconnecting from your ISP, your internet service provider. And when you do that, you are kind of,
you know, forsaking kind of, for lack of a better word, you're forsaking your own IP address,
so that, you know, your, your ISP could actually recycle it and give it to someone
else who just turned their router back on or who just got a subscription from that ISP,
so on and so forth. Now, sometimes some ISP will actually recognize that it's actually
the same router that just went off for a couple minutes and came back on, you know,
depending on how they go about their systems and stuff like that, they might give you the
same IP address. So you might notice that, you know, it's not really changing. So you'd have
to contact your ISP and ask them to change your IP address. And it depending on I guess, depending on
where you live, you know, they might ask you why do you want to change your IP address?
You know, what's the reasoning behind? What's the reasoning behind it, you know,
they might ask you a couple of questions. And you know, that might be a bit of a nuisance for some
people, because you might just want to change your IP address, for no reason at all, or for reasons
that you may not want to talk about. In which case, you know, I don't know what to tell you.
And if you don't want to tell these reasons to your ISP, well, I guess you could try other
methods such as switching to a different different network or just using a different Wi Fi. That's
clearly a different IP, you can use a proxy server, but you know, we're not going to talk
about that right now, you know, you could use a proxy server, generate some random IP from the
internet and use it on your proxy server. That's a different video. So the method we're going to
talk about today is using a VPN. Now, that is one of the easiest ways to change your IP address.
It's very effective. It's, it gives you 1000s and 1000s of servers, and which means 1000s of
different IP addresses that you could just hop around in between and and yeah, it's, it's a,
it's a lovely time. Now, we're using ExpressVPN ExpressVPN is one of the easiest, most effective
VPNs out there, I like to call it the apple of VPNs. It's known for reliability,
safety and privacy and security. And you know, it's pretty quick. So yeah, it's very effective,
it's very easy to use. And if you are interested in it, you can just I'll leave some links in the
description down below. If you're looking for some special deals. Sometimes I happen
to find these deals where you may not find them on the ExpressVPN or other you know,
VPN websites to the original website. So I'll just link whatever offers I find down below,
feel free to take advantage of those now. What you want to do is, when you load up your VPN,
or express VPN, or whatever VPN you have, all you have to do, usually there's just a on button
for VPN, and ExpressVPN is just it's right here. Okay. Other big bands, you might have to actually
double click the server or something like that depends on what the user interface is like. Now,
here is it's very simple. Unknown Speaker 4:21
It's as simple as clicking this on button right here. And now I'm in the Netherlands. Now if you
look here, my IP address was in France because I was in a French server earlier when I tested this.
When I reset when I when I refresh this page right here, what is my IP address? I should be
in the Netherlands. So let's put it to the test. See, okay, so the IP just changed and I am in the
Netherlands indeed. So it's just the simple it's super simple to use a VPN and you know,
hide my IP address or use other IPS. Now let's go to on a turn it off for a second. Now, I'm just
going to show you a few features that ExpressVPN has. Now one cool feature is that you have a test
speed test feature. So let's say you're trying to use a different IP address because you're I don't
know you're trying to torrent or something, you want to find out what is the fastest
server you have on offer. So you can just run a quick test. Now something with ExpressVPN,
I don't know if other VPNs have that is that it doesn't accurately represent your speed.
My speed is actually about double that. It's not exactly six. This is the fastest given me Paris
one is the fastest one. But it does accurately represent the fastest server. So this is indeed
the fastest server but I have faster speeds. But yeah, that's just something to point out. So
that's really cool. When it comes to the speed test. If you're not familiar with VPN, what a VPN
does, it's a virtual private network. And it puts you through tunnels in order to protect your data
using IP addresses all over the world. So there are ExpressVPN own servers all over the world.
And they have over 3000 servers in 94 countries, which is huge. And what you want to do
is a few things before you actually move on with protect using these servers to change
your IP address is that only use Express VPN DNS servers while connected which means these servers
are going to be owned, you only want to use the servers that are actually owned by ExpressVPN,
which will guarantee top security that this is this is definitely a recommendation
that you should probably stick with. I like to use lightweight because it's very effective.
When it comes to just generally connecting it takes less than a second to connect to
different servers around the world. As you can see, let me I want to, there you go.
Just connected, we want to connect to a different server just straight up, Italy. And there we go.
Just a second to connect this is what's really cool about lightweight,
open VPN is the best combination of speed and security as it says here.
And it's uh, you know, it's been tested over the years open VPN is super secure. And it's
just great overall. But you know, I'm not too worried about security right now, I just want
speed. So I'm going to go with lightweight. Now, another thing you want to keep in mind is that
you want to keep the kill switch on if you don't want let's say you're you're engaging in some
activity that your ISP may not be may not approve of, or your or maybe maybe you're playing a game
that you're not allowed to play in your country, God forbid, for whatever for whatever reason why.
Now, the kill switch is going to cut your internet connection the moment your VPN connection is lost.
Now, I have not experienced that with ExpressVPN. Maybe it's just because it's, it's I guess it's a
really good VPN and it's reliable. Well, not I guess it is a very good VPN, it's been tested.
It's one of the top VPNs out there. But the kill switch never seems to fail. When it does. There
haven't been any complaints anywhere. I haven't seen any complaints regarding the kill switch.
If for whatever reason, the VPN disconnects unexpectedly, it will cut your internet connection
so that it doesn't leak your IP address. And you know, your ISP won't be able to identify that oh,
well, we we caught this guy playing pub g on this IP address and this IP address in his in
our country, and our country does not allow pub g for whatever reason. So yeah, that's what the
kill switches for now. I don't need that really right at the moment. So okay, I need to turn
it off. I don't need the kill switch. So yeah, there's nothing that's banned here. So yeah.
Unknown Speaker 9:08 So that would be how to change your IP address
using a VPN. Now there are a few other uses. It's not just to change your IP address,
if you know if you don't want to just buy VPN solely just to change your IP address. Obviously,
that's not what a VPN that's not the sole reason why people have VPNs now what to use a VPN for,
you could use a VPN, for example, on unlocking or unblocking geo restrictions, and access different
streaming libraries for example, or if I want to get some kind of good deal on on a game you know,
maybe maybe a game in my country is like 60 bucks, but I can find it other in other places, you know,
change my IP to Argentina or something like that access their browsing data and I can get a $10
discount on that game. So you know, stuff like that. You just unblock geo restrictions on block
may be some Netflix libraries that you don't have access to in your country, some shows and whatnot.
And a VPN is very useful when it comes to also shielding your data and keeping your data private.
Now, I remember back in the days, I used my laptop at a cafe. And that is a that is a public Wi Fi in
a cafe. And what ended up happening is, was just terrible. So I opened my Facebook in that cafe,
and I left there, obviously, I was on my own Facebook, you know, I was on my own
laptop. But because it's a public Wi Fi, the moderator there had access to all the data
that that is that is, you know, all the browsing data that that's happening on their own network.
And what ended up happening is that this guy went into my Facebook and you know, they, he just,
he messed it up, he really, he messed it all up. And one of my colleagues at college called me
at like, 6am, and she was like, hey, you're either drunk. You're they're really drunk,
or somebody hacked your Facebook, check it right now. And I you know, I woke up and I'm like, Okay,
well, that's, that's a problem. But if I had a VPN back, then none of that would have happened. And
I could have avoided all of the embarrassment that happened to me that day, back in the college days,
where people were like, Oh, I don't expect you to do that. And I'm like, come on, man. I got hacked,
you know, I wouldn't say something like that. But you know. So that's one reason you could use a VPN
for. Obviously, if you're living in a country with heavy restrictions, you can also bypass
these firewalls using obfuscation tools that really good VPNs have that, like ExpressVPN,
these obfuscation tools will essentially obfuscate your browsing data, and it will make it light look
like any other browsing data. You know, and your, your ISP won't even be able to tell it that you're
using a VPN in the first place. So that's really cool. These are the uses for a VPN, you know,
obviously, not just changing your IP. That's, that's just a given really, when it comes to VPNs.
And, yeah, if you are interested, again, I'll leave some links in the description.
And, you know, you could hopefully save some more cash if you're interested in ExpressVPN.
And yeah, that would be it. Thank you very much for watching. I hope you learned something
foreign. Sorry for the little story. I know nobody asked for that. And I'll see you guys
in the next one. Have a good day. Transcribed by https://otter.ai