How to find the MAC (Physical) Address in Windows 8/8.1
Windows 8 revamped the Windows UI with its new Modern look and feel. This is all nice except the fact that the way to access many things has changed. Talking of the MAC address, you can now find it easily using the Modern Interface, plus there’s the same old method of using the command prompt as well.
Method 1 – Using the Modern Interface
Find the Physical Address of MAC Address in the Modern Interface of Windows 8.1 is a very easy and straightforward process. Refer to the following steps to locate it.
- Tap/Click on Start (or press the Windows logo key on your keyboard) and type ‘Network Connection‘.
- From the items found on the right, tap/click on the Network connection settings.
- In the network settings, click or tap on the name of connection for which you need the Physical (MAC) Address.
- The details/properties of the particular connection/adapter will be displayed.
- The MAC address can be found in front of the Physical Address item.
- Click on Copy if you want to copy the entire properties to your clipboard.
Method 2 – Using the Command Prompt (CMD)
MAC address of a particular adapter can also be found using the Command Prompt. Refer to the steps below to find out the MAC address of your network adapter using Command Prompt.
- Click or tap on Start and type cmd.
- Press enter on your keyboard or else tap or click on Command Prompt in the find window at the left.
- Type ipconfig /all in the Command Prompt window and press Enter.
- Once the command is completed, scroll to the Network Adapter for which the MAC address is needed.
- Mark the address written against the Physical Address field and copy it for further use (where needed).
Method 3 – Connection Properties
If you are connected to the network, you can also find the MAC address in its status. Just open the networking and sharing center, right click on the appropriate connection and select Status. Then just press on details and note the address shown in front of Physical Address. that’s your MAC address.
How to find MAC address in Windows 8 / Windows 8.1?
This article will help you to find MAC address in Windows 8 / Windows 8.1. MAC is the acronym for Media Access Control Address which is nothing but an identifying unique address assigned to a computer for communication over physical networks. One MAC address exists for each installed hardware that has a network interface card (NIC). Since, the address is registered and encoded by the manufacturer is it also known as hardware address. Besides, windows also maintains one or more MAC addresses, which are not associated with hardware cards. For example, Windows dial-up networking and VPN clients use virtual MAC addresses. MAC addresses of these virtual network adapters are of same length and format.
MAC Address is a 48 bits address field. So it can hold 2^48 MAC addresses in all. MAC Addresses are of two types-
a. universally administered addresses – This is assigned by the manufacturer of the NIC.
b. locally administered addresses – This is assigned to the device by the network administrator.
MAC Addresses are of 48 bites or 6 byte. The first three bytes represents an identifier of a specific organization, i.e the company by which this device has been manufactured. This is known as the OUI or Organisationally Unique Identifier. Remaining 3 bytes represents the address which depends on the convention used by the manufacturer. Thus we get an idea in brief about the MAC Address. LAN connections, Ethernet ,802.11, wireless networks, Bluetooth IEEE 802.5, token ring, IEEE 802 networks, FDDI, ATM uses MAC addressing for communication purpose. Here you’ll learn to find the MAC Address of your Commuter.
Steps to find MAC address in Windows 8 / Windows 8.1
1. Press Windows Key + C to open Windows Charms bar and click on Search. In the Search field type cmd.
2. The result comes. Right-click on it and click on Run as Administrator. If prompted by UAC, click Yes to continue.
3. Type the following command
ipconfig -all
4. Now, there comes the list of physical addresses for various network devices.
5. If you want to know the MAC address of other devices connected to your Network, type the following command
arp -a. You’ll get the result like this. You can also find MAC address of computer on LAN.
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How to find my MAC address on Windows?
On Windows, you have at least two possible ways to get your MAC address: via ‘cmd.exe’ and by ‘Network and Sharing Center’ .
The first way
The first way is getting a list of your network interfaces in the console.
Press Win key and R to initiate the Run dialogue. Enter cmd and click Ok .
When the cmd.exe window appears, you can enter the command.
In this output you can find the right virtual or physical interface and look at the «Physical address» line, where you can find your MAC address.
How do you choose the right interface? Look at the name of an interface, which should contain Wi-Fi wireless adapters and Ethernet for wired ones. You also need to check the «Description» line: it should contain the name of your Wi-Fi adapter or network card. In any event, it cannot contain words such as «Proxy», «VPN», «Virtual», etc.
The second way
The second way is by using the GUI application «Network and Sharing Center».
To open this application, press Win and search by entering the name or just right-click on the networking icon in the Tray and choose Open Networking and Sharing Center .
The window of «Network and Sharing Center» will appear. If you have an active connection, you can click on the connection name Ethernet 3 .
Then, click on Details .
Now you can see all the details of the connection.
If you don’t have any active connections, or if you need to know a MAC address of an unused adapter, you can open Network and Sharing Center and click on Change adapter settings .
After this, you will see a list of your network connections. Here you can choose any connection and right-click on them, then click on the Status .
The Ethernet 3 Status modal window will appear, so, as you can see in the previous example, you need to click on Details and look at the Physical address field.