mac address

[Rob Hasselbaum]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:11 PM, j. daniel moylan <moylan at alioth> wrote:

> i have a family member trying to access my netgear mr814
> access point, which is set up to accept connections only
> from known mac addresses.
>
> the new computer has built in wireless and is running
> windows7.  how can i determine the mac address  of that
> computer?  i've fumbled around in the windows menu and not
> found the magic place.
>

Bear in mind that it is easy to spoof MAC addresses, so this doesn't offer
much in the way of security if that is your goal. WPA/WPA2 with a nice,
strong key will do the most comprehensive job of keeping unwanted people off
your wireless network.