How to Determine or Find Your MAC Address

Need to figure out what your MAC address is? I’ll explain how to do this in this article! But first, here’s what the MAC address is (excerpt from Wikipedia

“On computer networks, a media access control (MAC) address is a unique identifier attached to most network adapters ( network cards ). This is a number that acts as a name for a specific network adapter, so, for example, network cards (or built-in network adapters) on two different computers will have different names or MAC addresses, like an Ethernet adapter and a wireless adapter on the same computer, and multiple network cards in the router. However, you can change the MAC address on most modern equipment. ”

Windows MAC address

So what do you need to do to get your MAC address? It’s actually pretty simple! Let’s start by getting the MAC address of the PC:

1. Click Start and then click Run. In the text box, enter CMD . Click OK.

2. In a DOS (black box) window, type the following without quotes: “ ipconfig / all” and press Enter.

You will notice a lot of things that might not make sense! Basically, this command gives you all the information for any network card in your system, including the wired network adapter (Ethernet), bluetooth adapter, any virtual adapters and wireless adapter. Therefore, you will need to look for the header you want, because each adapter will have its own MAC address.

The MAC address is usually the last item on the list for each adapter and is referred to as the physical address. You will see a bunch of pairs of numbers separated by colons, for example 09: F2: 96: 3E… and so on. This is your MAC address for a specific adapter.

You can then use the MAC address in your router settings if you are configuring MAC filtering, which only allows you to specify specific devices that can connect to your Wi-Fi network. Please note that every device connected to your network has a MAC address, including smartphones, printers, etc.

OS X Mac title

If you have an Apple computer like a Macbook or Mac Mini, you can get the Mac address by following these steps.

1. Open “System Preferences” and click “Network”.

2. Click the connection that requires a MAC address, and then click the Advanced button in the lower right corner.

3. Then go to the Hardware tab and you will see the MAC address written right at the top.

Find MAC addresses of other devices

What about other devices on your network, such as an IP camera, iPhone, or wireless printer? Well, you can obviously try to get the MAC to address from the device itself, if possible. For example, on an iPhone, you can go to Settings, General, About, and you should see a line called Wi-Fi Address.

However, there are times when finding the MAC address of a device is not easy, so in such cases, there is another way to get the IP address of any device on your network – using a wireless router. Since your router is likely your DHCP server on your network, it will have all IP and MAC addresses for all connected devices. You can log into your router and just browse until you find a LAN page that shows all connected devices and their associated information.

So these are all ways to get the MAC address of your computer (PC or Mac) and any other network device connected to your router. If you have any problems finding your MAC address, ask a question here and we will try to help. Enjoy!

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