There are rare occasions when even an average user needs to change their
MAC address, otherwise known the physical network card address (on Windows you can check it by typing
ipconfig -all in command console). One of the most common reasons is
MAC filtering by internet providers. In my case, I needed to be able to use my company laptop for strictly job-related purposes from home. The problem was that my internet provider only allows one computer to be connected to the internet; more than one computer sharing the connection means that monthly fee goes double. I am not kidding here – welcome to Poland.
Were I to use more computers in the home network, I would probably just sit down and tinker a bit, the result being a post on routers with MAC cloning (this may happen one day), but as someone who normally abides the rules, I didn’t want to go down this road. After all I only use my company laptop on rare occasions, so I just needed to change the MAC address of its network card.
While searching for a tool that would allow me to do that, I realised that there is a is a crapload of programs out there that I would have to pay to use. It seemed to me that changing MAC address is such a simple thing that a free program should be able to do it. I was right – there are free programs that will change your MAC address, they are just buried in Google underneath steaming piles of crappy software the creators of which are greedy.
The most comfortable solution I have found was Technetium MAC Address Changer v5 (the name is pretty much self-explanatory). It’s user friendly, simple to use, does not include fancy-schmancy overblown visual interface, gets the job done and rus on almost every Windows system out there (not sure about Windows 7 though). A great simple tool for a particular purpose is what it is.
Oh, and to anyone that would like to go on about how displaying ones MAC address on the internet can be potentially harmful – did you read the title?
Posted by barts706 
