They are using security based on your wireless hardware's identification
code or MAC address, which is different from an IP address. Assuming
you're using a version of windows. To find it, (this only works when
connected to the internet, AFAIK), open a CMD window, (type CMD in the
run box off the start menu), type in the command "ipconfig /all". The
MAC address will be a string of HEX numbers separated by dashes, labeled
Looking something like this:
"Physical Address . . . . . . 00-0A-AE-D1-B9-E9"
If that doesn't work then you may have to find the location of
ipconfig.exe and type in it's entire path or change to that directory,
(usually %WINDOWS%\system32), but depending on who set up your machine
it could be anywhere.
On 6/21/2010 9:05 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote:
This is very OT, but since we have IT folks over here, I'm trying to
ask. When trying to book an hotel in Germany, I asked for internet
connection availability in their rooms. Their reply:
"We have internet connection (wireless lan) in all rooms for free but
therefore you have to fill out a sheet of paper with your mac-address
and then we can activate you for using internet."
Since I don't have a Mac, I have no clue what a Mac address is.
However, I suspect they mean a IP address. Even so, I believe my
internet wireless connection uses a dynamic IP and in case I have to
setup a new connection they have to assign me and let me know an IP
address...
What would you expect to do with a Win XP laptop for getting such a
"mac-address" wireless connection?
Thanks a lot.
Dario
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