The purpose of this article is to show the user how to recognize and obtain MAC addresses from product packaging. It is important that both wired and wireless MAC addresses be recorded. While most desktop computers have only one MAC address for the wired network card, most laptops should have two MAC addresses-one for the wireless network card and one for the wired network card. The following are examples of MAC addresses: It is usually written in six groups of two digits separated by hyphens( - ), colons( : ), or spaces.
MAC address composes of twelve(12) alpha-numeric digits ranging from 0 to 9 and A to F. The Media Access Control(MAC) address can be used to identify computers on the network.
