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Alternate Address For Access At Hotel How To Do This

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But a few minutes of google and reddit told me to change the xbox mac axdress to match my phones mac address.

Im pretty sure the mac has nothing to do with macintosh computers, but other ppl ive asked have been confused.

Xbox is mac comptible WhaaAAT) So anyway, all went well and it worked, mostly.

Alternate Address For Access At Hotel How To Do This

Is my xbox screwed now for when i get home Or is my phone screwed 15 comments share save hide report 38 Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by best level 1 3 points 3 years ago For those confused, Xbox will let you enter an alternate MAC address, here is another thread on how to do this: Edit: words are hard level 1 1 point 3 years ago Just FYI: All Hilton properties contract their internet support through ATT and its super easy to call the support line, give them your MAC address, and get connected.

Marriotts are hit or miss and Ive started to bring a travel router to make things more predictable.

Im in a new hotel pretty much every week and I bring my xbox along.

Now you select your device from your laptop and do the usual hotel wifi login process but this is the only time you do it.

A MAC address is something permanently associated with the hardware and cannot be changed.

If you are on WiFi at home, or even hard wired, go back into the network settings and tell the Xbox to use Dhcp and you will be fine.

Instructions to set dhcp are here level 2 Original Poster 2 points 3 years ago Pretty sure it was the mac address.

The idea is that i connect my phone to hotel wifi, then hotel logs my phones mac.

Then i change xbox mac to match my phone, so when xbox connects, hotel thinks its my phone and lets it thru.

Continue this thread level 2 Xbox 1 point 3 years ago the mac address can be spoofed and the xbox can do it.

Every network card had its own unique MAC address, so the Xbox actually has 2.

Its actually a good way of restricting access to a wireless network by setting up MAC address filtering, where only approved MAC addresses can connect.

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Alternate Mac Address For Access At Hotel