Protect your Wireless conection with WPA2 and use a strong password (>32), even if you use WPA2 and put a stupid password, people will break the password by capturing a WPA2 handshake from your network and brute force it. Well, in the past with the network bssid you could find the exactly lagitude and longitude, today there are some database's that still have this information. This will list all of your network settings, including the physical addresses of your wired and wireless hardware. At the Terminal Prompt, type ifconfig and press Enter. Then, you use airodump-ng to capture all clients connected to nearby networks, if you are lucky enough it will show his mac address and the wireless network he is connected. To get your computers Wired or Wireless MAC address from the Terminal Screen: Locate and open Terminal from Applications->Utilities->Terminal. When the command window appears, type ipconfig /all. For PCs running Windows 8 and later, launch the 'Command' program by searching for it in your applications list. For PCs running Windows 7 and earlier, Go to Start Menu > Programs > Accessories > DOS Command Prompt. He has a wireless network nearby (again, lets pretend he is one of your neighbor) Finding the Ethernet MAC Address Microsoft Windows.He didn't change his MAC Address to a fake one.Click the Start (Windows logo) button on the bottom left side of the screen. For all other devices, please refer to the manufacturer.
#HOW TO CHECK MAC ADDRESS ON YOUR COMPUTER HOW TO#
This document will show how to locate the MAC address for the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. He was not using some powerful antenna to strong his signal There may be situations in which the MAC address of a specific device needs to be located.You are close to him to be able to capture his traffic, or proble signal.For this, we need to assume a few things: Like others said, you can't find exactly who, but you can find the network he is usualy connected if he is one of your neighbor, and that may reveal some information about him.