Re: Wireless MAC address filtering

On Mon, 26 May 2008 17:18:47 -0700, "Dabbler"
<dabbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> spake thusly:

My older Linksys wireless AP router can only do WEP security, so when I got
my new HP laptop with built-in WiFi I decided to add wireless MAC address
filtering to my router. After some unsuccessful search for the laptop's WiFi
MAC address, I discovered that my router can actually display the active MAC
addresses even if the filtering is not set. Then I went ahead and wrote that
MAC address into the filter list and enabled filtering. All that
accomplished was that my laptop got disconnected from the WiFi network. I
also have a wireless Internet webcam and that could not connect with MAC
filtereing as well, even though its MAC address was entered in the filter
list.

I tried to restart the router, the laptop and the webcam but that would not
help the situation. I could only connect them to the router with disabled
MAC filtering.

Has any of you successfully added MAC address filtering into their wireless
home network?
If so, what am I missing?


I am using MAC filtering right now as I post this. I have used D-link,
Linksys and Belkin routers and the process is very simple.

You indicated that you had some difficulty discovering your laptop's
WiFi MAC address. You just need to open up a command window and type
"ipconfig/all" to get your own MAC addresses.

It's also possible that your router may have picked up somebody elses
computer and gave you THAT MAC address.

Hope this helps a little.

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