How to determine or find your MAC address

Posted on March 22, 2007 at 8:08 am

Do you need to figure out what your MAC address is? I’ll explain how to do that in this article! But first, here’s what a MAC address is (excerpt from Wikipedia):

“In computer networking a Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier attached to most network adapters (NICs). It is a number that acts like a name for a particular network adapter, so, for example, the network cards (or built-in network adapters) in two different computers will have different names, or MAC addresses, as would an Ethernet adapter and a wireless adapter in the same computer, and as would multiple network cards in a router. However, it is possible to change the mac address on most of today’s hardware.”

So what do you need to do to get your MAC address? It’s pretty simple actually! Here we go:

1. Click on Start and then click Run. In the text box, type in CMD. Click OK.

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

You’ll notice a lot of stuff 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, bluetooth adapter, and the wireless adapter. So you’ll have to look under the specific heading you need because each adapter will have it’s own MAC address.

The MAC address is usually the last item in the list for each adapter and it’s called Phyical Address. You’ll see a set of pairs of numbers separated by colons, i.e. 09:F2:96:3E…etc. This is your MAC address for that particular adapter.

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2 Responses to “How to determine or find your MAC address”

sandip said on : February 18th, 2008 at 5:12 am

i want to find MAC address of any machine.
so, if u know pls help me,
thanks..

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