Comments on: Forget your wifi password? https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/12/02/forget-your-wifi-password/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:33:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/12/02/forget-your-wifi-password/comment-page-1/#comment-3909 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:33:48 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=1617#comment-3909 In reply to ender.

I was going to use some kind of old DEC MAC for the fun of it, but it was 6AM when they cleared the general network is down and we know about it message… And I foolishly plugged in a laptop as they demanded… One thing that bothers me about the Apple airports is that they do not let you change their MAC addresses.. I had an ISP that would regularly block me for no reason… But it is funny when they blame your home network as being the root cause, and I change my MAC and it amazingly works… No doubt its a scam, I figure they must change for their own wifi routers that nobody buys not to mention tech onsite visits.

]]> By: ender https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/12/02/forget-your-wifi-password/comment-page-1/#comment-3907 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:21:21 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=1617#comment-3907 “Block from time to time”? I’ve heard of ISPs doing a lot of stupid things, and this is probably one of the crazier ones I’ve heard (locking you to a single MAC is another, which is why pretty much every SoHo router out there lets you set/clone the MAC).

If you don’t want to reveal your private MAC address to the ISP, just generate a random one – all you need to watch out for is that the first octet is even (that is, in xY:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, Y must not be 1,3,5,7,9,B,D or F, as that denotes multicast addresses), set that on the WAN port of your router, and get the ISP to accept that. Something like 02:60:0D:C0:FF:EE should work just fine.

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