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Note: Your wireless will need to be enabled in order to locate your MAC address. If you are not sure how to enable wireless on your device please refer to the instructions that came with your device.

Blackberry

1. At the Home screen, press the Menu key.
2. Scroll to and select the Options icon.
3. Scroll to and select Status to view the WLAN MAC address.

iPhone/iPod/iTouch

1. To figure out the MAC address of your iPhone, start at the home menu.
2. Select Settings, General, then select About.
3. Scroll down and look for Wi-Fi Address, that is your iPhone MAC address.

Android OS

1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Select Settings.
3. Scroll down and tap About phone.
4. Tap Status.
5. Scroll down to view the Wi-Fi MAC address.

Palm OS

Many Palm devices will have the MAC address clearly marked on the back of the device. Older Palm OS devices did not have built-in wireless capabilities and required an add-on wireless card. If the Palm device has an add-on wireless card, please refer to the manual of the add-on card for information on how to obtain the MAC address.

Web OS

1. From the Launcher, select Device Info.
2. Tap More Info.
3. Select the Hardware tab.

Windows Mobile 6

1. Enable WiFi.
2. Click Start, Settings, Connections, WiFi Manager.
3. In WiFi Manager, in the bottom right-hand corner, click MENU, then select About.
4. The fourth item listed is MAC Address.

Windows Mobile 5

1. Select Start, Settings.
2. Select the tab for Connections, then select Wireless LAN.
3. Select the Advanced tab.
4. The address will be listed as MAC.

Windows XP/Vista

1. Go to the Start menu and click on Run (if using Windows Vista, go to the Start button and use the Search field).
2. Type cmd and press the Enter key on the keyboard.
3. At the prompt, type ipconfig/all and press Enter.
4. The MAC address is on the Phyical Address line of the window.
   Note: Some computers have more than one ethernet adapter and the 'ipconfig' command lists all of the network adapters on the computer. Please find the one that describes your wireless card by looking at the Description field.

Mac OS X

Mac OS X (10.3 - 10.4)

1. Select System Preferences from the Dock or under the Apple menu.
2. Select Network from System Preferences.
3. Under the Show drop down menu, select Airport (this is your wireless adapter).
4. The Airport ID is your MAC Address.

Mac OS X (10.5)

1. Select System Preferences from the Dock or from the Apple menu.
2. Select Network from System Preferences.
3. In the Network window, click on AirPort in the left pane.
4. Click the Advanced button in the lower right of the window.
5. Click on the AirPort tab.
6. Your AirPort ID (MAC Address) will be listed at the bottom of the window.

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