IP and MAC address

You are able to find out the ip address of the mail server that the email originated from, if its a home user then this wont be THEIR ip address. and there is no way you could determine the mac address purely from an email.
 
Its not that simple im afraid. your public ip address that you will have used on your laptop will be exclusive to your internet provider, so as soon as you use your laptop on another connection the public ip address will have changed. your mac address is static however its absolutely no good to you unless you know what the mac address is. even then you would never be able to find it out simply by forum posts (for starters you need admin access on a forum to see the ip address of posters)
 
If you don't have your MAC address then you are out of luck. The IP address assigned to your laptop changes when you connect to a different network, so if your IP when you had the laptop was say 192.168.0.2, then it may be completely different then what it is if the person who has it now connects it to the internet.

The MAC address however is different, in theory every device has it's own unique MAC address, and it would be possible to track it that way. However if you do not know the MAC address, then you really are out of luck.
 
Its not going to be on any of the data discs you made, and im 99% sure its not going to be in the documentation either, you've got no chance im afraid my friend. To get the MAC address of the suspected laptop you would somehow have to get his public ip (either from forum logs or whatever) and then somehow compromise his LAN security to run a scan of the local subnet and check all the arp requests and replies.
 
vfankafrompoland said:
What about all the data discs that I made on my stolen laptop? wouldnt that leave a trace on the disc? like the mac address for example? there must be a way... Does computer documentation include it in the papers? i bought it from Dell, would they have the address in their documentation? now that you told me there is a spark of hope to find it by the mac address I'm obsessed with finding out that address
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The MAC address is not stored in the data discs, and each laptop has a different MAC address so it would not be in the manual.

I'm sorry to say but your chances of getting it back are very slim. Even if you had the MAC, the person who stole it could have disabled that NIC and bought a new one with a different MAC address, so it would be untraceable.
 
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