• Trying to find MAC address on Xbox Wireless Adapter.
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I'm trying to get my school to register it so I can play it online, but apparently I'm not giving them a valid MAC address, and apparently that means I'm not giving them my wireless adapter MAC address. Where can I find this number? I've looked in the system settings but the MAC address that's coming up isn't my wireless one. I either need to find that MAC address or figure out how to change this one to whatever it is that I need. Help?
Check the sticker on the adapter, most devices I've seen have it. I did a quick google search and found that it's listed on the sticker with the serial number. It faces the xbox when connected.
You can connect the xbox on a network and then do a network map and that should give you the ip and MAC address of every computer on the network. And maybe some other information.
If you can get a computer on the same network type arp /something and it should give you a list of devices along with their mac address.
Yeah that would work. On linux it's arp -a so on windows it whould be arp /a It may not display the hostname of the Xbox. You might have to get the ip and then compare it with the results of arp. If an ip matches the MAC address that's shown should be the one.
Can someone explain whatever you just said to me? I'm not good with computers or Xboxes or network stuff. [editline]04:34PM[/editline] To clarify, I was told that the MAC address I'm using was used by someone else a few months ago which means I can't use it now. Which seems like complete bullshit to me, but it means I somehow need to figure out how to get a MAC address they want.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;22347179]Can someone explain whatever you just said to me? I'm not good with computers or Xboxes or network stuff. [editline]04:34PM[/editline] To clarify, I was told that the MAC address I'm using was used by someone else a few months ago which means I can't use it now. Which seems like complete bullshit to me, but it means I somehow need to figure out how to get a MAC address they want.[/QUOTE] The MAC address is unique and hard coded to the device. So yeah you've been lied to.
That's what I thought. But I figured it out now and it works. Awesome.
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