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Wireless Card Address?

post #1 of 9
2/16/06 at 3:26pm
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I am not really a computer guy, and this will be my first laptop. For campus, they said i need to register my 12 character wireless card address to use the wifi network.

i have not gotten the laptop in the mail yet, so like where is the address at lol? and can i get it before my notebook comes (an m140, i don't play much games)?

and yes, i know, i'm a total noob
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post #2 of 9
2/16/06 at 3:34pm
When your computer arrives, go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.

Enter and execute: IPCONFIG /ALL

It's the entry "Physical Address" under your wireless adapter.
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post #3 of 9
2/16/06 at 7:21pm
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ok, just got the notebook like 20 minutes ago and registered the #

thank you so much for your help
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post #4 of 9
2/17/06 at 8:49am
That's a poor way of authentication because the physical address can be easily spoofed. Our campus had a user/password authentication. When you try to connect to an AP, a standard windows message pops up asking to input our college id and password. The password expires every 40 days or so.
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post #5 of 9
2/17/06 at 9:59pm
Indeed it is, plus data transmission is not encrypted.... not that he has a choice exactly
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post #6 of 9
2/18/06 at 12:50am
What do you ya'll recomened for wireless security? I'm using a Mac filter right now...
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post #7 of 9
2/18/06 at 1:24am
I also only use a MAC filter for both wired and wireless. I don't really care that much about encryption. My neighbors are fairly spread out so I don't really care about it. But for someone in a big city, you may want to use encryption.
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post #8 of 9
2/18/06 at 1:28am
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Originally Posted by suprsheep2
I also only use a MAC filter for both wired and wireless. I don't really care that much about encryption. My neighbors are fairly spread out so I don't really care about it. But for someone in a big city, you may want to use encryption.
Yup. If you go for encryption, WPA is the way to go--that is, it's a better choice than WEP.
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post #9 of 9
2/18/06 at 1:28am
MAC addy is also located in the device manager, wifi...click and intel box should pop up with settinfs, and much info.
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