It is very unlikely that you will ever need to do this, but it is a good thing to know. This will basically change the physical identity of your computer. Possible uses:

• Wifi hotspot banned your mac address or they only allow certain ones(both unlikely)
• ISP only allows X amount of mac addresses to connect to your modem a week(this is also unlikely as almost everyone has a router nowadays and creates a LAN)

How To:

1. *Windows XP Users* Click on Start > Control Panel and select Network Connections, Right click on the network connection you wish to spoof the mac address with
2. *Windows Vista Users* Go to Control Panel, then Network and Internet, then Network and Sharing Center, and then Managed Network Connections.
3. On the general tab click configure button
4. Now select the advanced tab
5. In the left list box go to Locally Administered Address
6. Select the Value radio button and enter what you want to appear as your mac address

Now you can go to into a command prompt(start>run type cmd). then type ipconfig /all and you should see your newly spoofed mac addrses!

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