Hello everybody!
In today’s video, I’m going to tell you how to learn IP and MAC addresses of your
computer, smartphone or tablet PC, no matter what operating system they have - Windows
or MacOS, Android or iOS.
After we had published several videos about router settings in our YouTube channel, many
people started asking us how to find IP and MAC addresses of their computers, smartphones,
tablets or other devices.
In this video, I’ll try to describe the easiest and most convenient ways to do it.
Here
we go.
There may be many reasons why you need to know the IP and MAC address of a certain device,
but usually it happens when such device has to be bound to an Internet service provider.
As we all know, every device connected to the Internet (laptops, tablets, desktops,
smartphones) has its own IP address in the network, and a general-purpose MAC address.
All right, let’s begin with Windows computers.
No matter what version of Windows your computer is running, you can learn its IP and MAC addresses
with the help of the command prompt.
To have it done: • Run the command prompt in any way you
like.
• Type the command ipconfig/all.
• You will see all information about the network adapters available for this PC, both
wired and wireless.
The line “Physical Address” gives you the MAC address of the computer’s network
adapter, While IPv4 address is the current IP address
of your computer within the network.
Please note that if your computer has several network adapters, for example, Ethernet and
Wi-Fi adapters, this command displays the information on both devices.
Naturally, they will have different IP and MAC addresses.
What you need is the addresses of the adapter which is currently in use.
If your computer is running Windows 10, you can see its IP and MAC addresses in the network
connection properties.
For that purpose: • Click on the Network and Internet Settings
icon in the task bar.
• When it opens, click on the icon of the wired connection, or on the Properties link
for the wireless connection.
• You will see all information about the network adapter in the “Properties” section
below.
The line “Physical Address” gives you the MAC address of the computer’s network
adapter, While IPv4 address is the current IP address
of your computer within the network.
The following method will work for all versions of Windows including Windows 7 or older:
• Open Control Panel / Network and Sharing Center / Change adapter settings.
• Right-click on the network adapter which is used for establishing the Internet connection
(wired or wireless) and select “Status” / “Details.”
The line “Physical Address” gives you the MAC address of the computer’s network
adapter, While IPv4 address is the current IP address
of your computer within the network.
If you have a computer with MacOS, it’s also easy to find out its IP and MAC addresses.
For that purpose: • Open Finder / Applications / Utilities
• And start “Terminal” • In the Terminal, type the command “ifconfig”
• The line “ether” gives you the MAC address of the computer’s network adapter,
• While the line “inet” contains the current IP address of your computer within
the network.
There is also the second method: • Go to System Preferences / Network / Choose
the necessary connection if there are more than one / click Advanced.
• IPv4 address is the current IP address of your computer within the network.
• And the MAC address is shown in the Hardware tab.
That’s easy.
Now let’s move on to smartphones and tablets.
In order to learn the IP and MAC addresses of an Android smartphone or tablet PC:
• go to Settings / About phone / Status.
• The address you are looking for is given in the line “MAC Address.”
• And the IP address - in the menu item of the same name.
Also, you can see the IP and MAC addresses for an Android device by visiting Wi-Fi network
properties.
• Go to Settings / WLAN, and click on the properties icon or network information line.
• Network (/) • It shows you all the information about
the current connection, including IP and MAC addresses.
However, bear in mind that the Wi-Fi network properties menu is only available when the
device is already connected to this network.
Depending on the Android version running on a particular device, names of the menu items
may be slightly different.
IP and MAC addresses in iOS.
To learn the IP address: • Go to Settings / Wi-Fi / and tap the “I”
button next to the name of the network where your device is connected.
• IP address is given in the corresponding field.
To learn the MAC address: • Go to Settings / General / About.
• MAC address is given in the field “Wi-Fi address.”
Talking of getting to know your router’s MAC address, we have a special video tutorial
on basic configuration of a router, so you can watch it for more details.
I will give the link in the description.
One more thing.
How to learn a computer’s external IP address?
It’s even easier than finding out what your IP address within a network looks like.
If you need it, visit one of the specialized services, for example, 2IP.ru.
When you go to this website, you will see your external IP address, information about
your Internet service provider and other data.
That
is all for now.
I hope this video will be useful for you.
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