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How to identify the manufacturer of your network device using its mac address

What is MAC address ?
In computer networking a MAC address (also known as an Ethernet Hardware Address or physical address) is an unique identifier consisting of six groups of two hexadecimal digits. An example of a MAC address would be 00:1E:C1:4C:E6:C6. It is 48 bits long, which means that there are 281,474,976,710,656 possible MAC addresses. [...]

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How to enhance the security of your wireless network.

If you own a wireless home or office network, then you know that this is maybe the most easiest way to connect your computers to each other. Wireless networks allow you to share files (such as documents or multimedia files) or even Internet connection between your computers, providing access to themĀ  from anywhere in your [...]

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Wireless LAN cards (Part 2)

1.USB wireless adapters.
USB WLAN adapters offer some of the best flexibility for desktop or laptop computers. USB offers more deployment options than PCI because you can move the USB device around the room until you find its optimal position. Most USB devices come with a 1m. USB cable, but if you are using a powered [...]

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Wireless LAN Cards (part 1)

As you know, wireless networks are all around us.Their main purpose is to remove the restrictions imposed by the cables. Due to lower prices, wireless equipment becomes more accessible to people who want to build thier own wireless networks. There are also thousands of public Wi-Fi hotspots around the world, through which you can access [...]

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How to change MAC address in Windows Xp

As you probably know every ethernet card has a unique MAC address, programmed by the manufacturer, which helps ISP to identify any card connected to the network. But sometimes we need to change that address, especially when working with a laptop and we often have to connect to different networks. There are also internet service [...]

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