Hardware Address

How to Find MAC Addess

• Use the steps from the appropriate section below to find your computer's MAC Address
• Once you have found it, enter into the field in the form. Please leave out hyphens and colons.

Windows 7

• At the start menu search for and choose "cmd"

• Type ipconfig/all at the prompt that appears and press "Enter"

• In the "Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection" section find the "Physical Address"

• The "Physical Address" is the MAC Address of the machine

Windows 8

• From the desktop, hit the windows button, search for, and select "cmd"

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• Type ipconfig/all at the prompt that appears and press "Enter"

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• In the "Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection" section find the "Physical Address"

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• The "Physical Address" is the MAC Address of the machine

OS X

• Go to System Preferences and select Network

• Make sure Ethernet is selected on the left side menu and click on "Advanced"

• Click on the far right tab called "Hardware"

• Mac Address is listed at the top

Linux

• Search for and find the terminal application

• At the prompt type ifconfig

• The HWaddr will be listed in the first line of the eth0 section

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• The HWaddr is the MAC Address