"stephen" <stephen_hope@xyzworld.com> wrote in message
news:J4mOi.22000$HW.14052@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
> "Bill Kearney" <wkearney-99@hot-mail-com> wrote in message
> news:yqOdnVssRfU2DJTanZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@speakeasy.ne t...
>> > 3. Change your MAC address to DEADBEEFCAFE (using MacMakeUp freeware)
>
> this is a multicast MAC address
>
> even if this was a good idea (and it isnt - as Bill suggests 2 people
> doing
> this simultaneously will at the same hotspot will break various things),
> good equipment will refuse to talk to a device using a multicast MAC
> source
> adr, as it is breaking the IEEE 802.3 rules for addressing.
>
>>
>> This is stupid. You'll just run into conflicts with some other nitwit
>> trying to steal wifi access for god knows what idiocy online.
>
> and if i ran a hot spot chain and saw this thread, that adr would get
> blocked universally.

So pick a different MAC.
This one was obviously chosen to be a pun, using hex characters that spelled
out something.