How to change your mac address

Check your ip address by going to start button and type in cmd. in the command prompt, type in ipconfig/all now you will see your ip address and your mac address (physical address), and your ip address.

first of all you want to download the free software called the macmakeup. go to google search and go ahead  and type in macmakeup, after downloading it go ahead and extract it. if your using windows vista or windows 7 you will need to right click on macmakeup.exe and choose Run as Administrator.

if you have multiple network card you can choose the one you want to use in from the drop down menu at the top and then to change the mac address you can either choose to generate the random button to generate one base on the mac address or the manufacturers id. you can also select a specific manufacturers id in the drop down menu. and once you have a new mac address, click on the change button and its going to apply the changes. 

now go to the command prompt by going to the start button and typing cmd to reset the internet connection. in the command prompt, type in ipconfig/release and press enter, then type in ipconfig/renew. once you have renew you type ipconfig/all and you should see you have a new ip address.

now before we change the mac address in your router lets find out whats your actual ip address is. to do this go to www.whatismyip.com and write down the ip address that it gave you. now you want to go back to the command prompt and type in ipconfig/all and then find the default gateway. 

now open up a web browser and type in the default gateway into the address bar. once you hit enter it should prompt you with your username and password. once your in find the settings for your router and find the mac address for your router. on some cases depending on a router you have, you can clone the mac address to the router and change it that way. on some cases you can enter your own custom ip address that you can generate using the macmakeup utility. and then when your through apply the changes and wait for your router to reset. now go back to www.whatismyip.com, and see if the ip address is changed. 

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