2 mac addresses?

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Jeff88

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I was doing some google searching and I can't find the answer to this question so I was curious if anybody knew.

I have a Windows 7 Desktop computer and my mother just got a Windows 7 Laptop. I was always hardwired so it wasn't a big deal but when I was hooking up my mother to the internet I needed two mac numbers for her wireless card. I then decided to hook myself up to the wireless just for fun and I found out I had two mac numbers for my wireless as well. Anybody know the reasoning behind this? Is it for security reasons? I mean it isn't a big deal I am just really curious to why I need two mac numbers. Thanks

-Jeff
 
There is only one MAC per NIC, are you sure you aren't seeing the MAC for both the ethernet and wireless?
 
Nope I needed both Mac addresses to get online. Plus the laptop even had a third mac address for the ethernet. Could it be that we both just happened to have weird wireless cards?
 
I'm not sure what you mean by you needed two MAC addresses to get online, do you mean you needed to add her MAC to your router for MAC filtering reasons? Otherwise there is no reason you would need a MAC address to get online.
 
What kind of router and wireless cards are you using? MAC addresses are 100% standardized, no reason to have 2. Are you talking about cloning an address? What did it ask for, for each instance where you input one?
 
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