Hi Tom

It is quite simple to get your router to give out your old ip address for you to be able to play the game online again, is there anywhere on the game that you can change your ip address to the new one your router is distributing when you access the internet to save reconfigurating yur router ? try that first.

If you want your router to distribute your old ip address which you said was 192.168.255.62 you are going to need to access your router to change the range of ip address that the router distributes.

On a wireless router the default class c ip address is usually 192.168.1.0, there are four diffrent numbers here and these are called octets so 192.168.1 is the network you belong to (first three octets) and the final octet defines the host on that network.

So you say both you and your friend now have the new ip address of 192.168.1.2 so you and your friend are in diffrent homes right and want to play eachother online.

So at the moment your router will probably have the address 192.168.1.1 (which will also be your default gateway) and then as you are the first host (user) on the network you will get the address 192.168.1.2 .

On your wireless router all ip address are given out by somthing called a DHCP server and you are able to manage what addresses the router uses for your network.

First of all you are going to need to find your default gateway . (will need pc or laptop that you use to access the internet via the router)

on xp press the green start button in the bottom left of your user account.

Then in that little window that opens look at the bottom right of that window you should see Run click it.

Ten in that small window type in cmd.

now a black cli screen will come up . in there type ipconfig (this will tell you your default gateway)

on vista start > all programs>accesories>command promt > ipconfig

once you have your default gateway go to your web browser and in the top tool bar type in http//then your default gateway ip address E.G. http//192.168.1.1 (this can be done via wireless or by plugging an ethernet cable from your laptop to your router there should be 4 ports in the back of the pc use one of them)

Then another window will come up which usually has 2 boxes admin and password.

If your router was preconfigured then you might need to contact your isp to get the password.
but in some cases the the admin box will be admin and the password will be password OR leave admin field blank and just type in password.

Once you have done that you will enter the setup of the router now you want to look for somthing called ROUTER IP which in your case will probably be 192.168.1.1. Now to access your game you want to change that to make your game work so simply change it to 192.168.255.61 and keep the subnet mask the same should be 255.255.255.0

Now just below that there (it is on my router i have a linksys) you should find somthing called DHCP server and there under that there should be somthing like starting ip address change this to 192.168.255.62 to make sure that the first host that connects to the network will get the address 192.168.255.62 (once you have changed your ip address ranges be sure to save your settings at the bottom of the screen click save changes tab then your router will reboot to make sure these changes take affect)

So if the only two things that are on your network are your router and your pc or gaming console the following ip address should apply

Default gateway 192.168.255.61
Gaming console 192.168.255.62

But if you have a pc/latop connected and also a gaming console then you want to make sure that whatever it is you want to play your game on connects to the network first to make sure it gets the 192.168.255.62

And your games console should work hope that helped post a message on here to let me know how you got on.

Good luck