Changing MAC Address

Certain games, such as Second Life and Habbo Hotel, and sites and chat rooms will sometimes ban your MAC address, which is specific to your network card. This means that changing your IP is useless. Also, some ISPs will not normally change your IP address, but with a new (fake) MAC they will give you a new one. Fear not, you can change your MAC address too!

Software

• Technitium Mac changer [1]
• SMAC [2]
• Mac Shift [3]

Tutorial

• I use SMAC and this is what I do.
• I click on my main one (the top) and make up a macid.
• I click apply and wait ~ 2 to 3 minutes.
• After it is done you need to unplug your modem and wait 2 minutes.
• Plug your modem back in and enjoy your new IP.

Self MACID Support

Based on the Technitium MAC Address Changer, though the others are more of the same type, not hard.

• Not much to say. You select the network adapter with you surf the interbutts, and make up a MAC address. The Technitium MAC Address Changer can generate some for you, even let you know what card maker's address range you're using.
• If you're not sure which network adapter you're using, just change one at a time and try accessing the game again.
• If you wanna switch back to your original address, it lets you do that too, so you can roll back at any time.

If your using a router

• Go into your gateway site edit page.
• Goto MACID
• Change the ID with random numbers.
• Click Apply.
• Unplug your modem and wait 2 minutes.
• Plug it back in and enjoy your new IP.

Self Router MACID Support.

• Sometimes, if you have a router, THAT might be the MAC that your game/chat room/ISP uses.
• It is best to spoof your MAC on your computer and see if your router has a changeable MAC or a MAC cloner (that will copy your computer's MAC).
• On a Linksys this should be under your main panel, a tab labeled "MAC Address Clone;" enable it.

Linux users

GNU Mac Changer is a useful tool for vaporizing b&s with one simple command. You can get it on Debian based systems with sudo apt-get install mac changer You can download the source or packages for other distros at the homepage. Change your MAC like so (eth0 in this example): mac changer eth0 Alternatively, you can use ifconfig (interface needs to be stopped first): ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:00