{"id":475,"date":"2009-10-07T08:44:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=475"},"modified":"2021-01-26T13:21:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:21:04","slug":"how-do-i-find-my-mac-or-physical-address-of-my-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/how-do-i-find-my-mac-or-physical-address-of-my-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I find my MAC or Physical Address of my computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Windows 7 (please tell me you are not running this any more &#8230;)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2013 Click the <strong> Start <\/strong> icon<\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Click <strong> Control Panel <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Select <strong>Large icons<\/strong> for the View<\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Click <strong> Network and Sharing Center <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Select <strong>Change Adapter Settings <\/strong> from the list on the left hand side<\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Right click on the connection you are trying to find the MAC address for and select <strong> Properties <\/strong> \u2013 you will have a separate MAC address for your wireless card and your Ethernet (LAN) card. Make sure you use the correct one.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Hover your mouse over the text box underneath connect using.\u00a0 Your MAC address will appear in the tooltip and is made up of 12 characters e.g. 00-D4-1F-76-23-B0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Windows 8\/8.1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to your <strong>Desktop<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Open a Windows Explorer window by clicking on the <b>Windows Explorer <\/b>icon on the taskbar.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the small <b>Folder <\/b>icon in the Address bar, type <b>cmd<\/b>, then press <b>Enter<\/b>. A new <b>Command Prompt <\/b>window will be opened.<\/li>\n<li>In the Command Prompt window type <b>getmac \/v \/fo list<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Find the section that describes the adapter whose MAC address you want to find. Look for the <b>Physical Address <\/b>line &#8211; it shows the MAC address as six groups of two hexadecimal digits, separated by hyphens (e.g. 00-26-18-4F-55-B7).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Windows 10<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to your <strong>Desktop<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Type <b>cmd<\/b>, in the search bar located next to the start button on the taskbar.\u00a0 Then press <b>Enter<\/b>. A new <b>Command Prompt <\/b>window will be opened.<\/li>\n<li>In the Command Prompt window type <b>getmac \/v \/fo list<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Find the section that describes the adapter whose MAC address you want to find. Look for the <b>Physical Address <\/b>line &#8211; it shows the MAC address as six groups of two hexadecimal digits, separated by hyphens (e.g. 00-26-18-4F-55-B7).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Apple MacOS 10.8 and Newer<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2013 From the <strong> Apple <\/strong> in the upper left hand corner choose <strong> System Preferences <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Click on the <strong> Network <\/strong> icon<\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Select <strong> Ethernet <\/strong> for <strong> Wired <\/strong> or <strong>Wi-Fi <\/strong> for <strong> Wireless <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Click on the <strong> Advanced <\/strong> button<\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Click on the <strong>Hardware <\/strong> tab<\/li>\n<li>\u2013 Your MAC address will be at the top of this window as your <strong>MAC Address <\/strong> . The MAC address is the 12 character address e.g. 00:D4:1F:76:23:B0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 (please tell me you are not running this any more &#8230;) \u2013 Click the Start icon \u2013 Click Control Panel \u2013 Select Large icons for the View \u2013 Click Network and Sharing Center \u2013 Select Change Adapter Settings from the list on the left hand side \u2013 Right click on the connection you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-networking","category-knowledge-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}