My laptop was stolen, can I track it down?

JohnnyUtah · 04-06-2008, 10:48 PM

My laptop was stolen and I was wondering if I could track it down using the mac address, is there any legitimate way of tracking laptops?

Jhow · 04-07-2008, 05:13 AM

I'm not sure and I know this is after the fact but you can buy lojack for laptops at officemax, best buy, or others and they'll track it like you would with lojack and a car and they have a 90% recovery rate.

dznutz · 04-07-2008, 07:17 AM

sorry about that

you should've bougt a lojack for laptops but that's too late now. it uses communication via internet

far as i know you can't track them down using a mac address filter as it is not universally unique

may i ask how it was stolen?

Vizy93 · 04-07-2008, 07:21 AM

Damn, sorry. As everyone else said, its near impossible to find a laptop without lojack being installed!

[-0MEGA-] · 04-07-2008, 03:01 PM

Do you know your MAC address?

JohnnyUtah · 04-08-2008, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [-0MEGA-]

Do you know your MAC address?

yep

Quote:

sorry about that

you should've bougt a lojack for laptops but that's too late now. it uses communication via internet

far as i know you can't track them down using a mac address filter as it is not universally unique

may i ask how it was stolen?

Went in through my window and took it out

[-0MEGA-] · 04-09-2008, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dznutz

far as i know you can't track them down using a mac address filter as it is not universally unique

In theory, every MAC address is suppose to be unique.

I find it weird that you would know your MAC address, unless it was stored on the router for instance and you checked back to capture the MAC address.

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04-07-2008, 05:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
Jhow Silver Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 161	I'm not sure and I know this is after the fact but you can buy lojack for laptops at officemax, best buy, or others and they'll track it like you would with lojack and a car and they have a 90% recovery rate.

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