Book Title. Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide, Release 7. Chapter Title. Chapter 7 Configuring WLANs. PDF Complete Book. Changing Your MAC Address In Window XPVista, Linux And Mac OS X Sometimes known as MAC spoofing First let me explain a few things about MAC addresses. Configuring two wireless routers with one SSID network name at home for free roaming When we moved into the new house and setup the new home office a few years back, I posted about wiring the house for wired Cat 6 ethernet. Ive never liked or trusted wireless, so when we started building the place it was always in the plan to wire everything and focus on speed. Fast forward to 2. Wii is wireless, the i. Pad and i. Phones are wireless, the Windows Phone 7 is wireless, my wifes laptop is wireless, and its all slow. Its slow because Im using the standard Verizon now Frontier FIOS wireless router to cover all corners of a two story house. Over the last few weeks its been especially irritating as the wife has moved her laptop into another room and Ive started watching streaming Netflix from the corner of a room Id never had a wireless device in. I tried using the standard admin interface to boost the power of the wireless router a bit, but that didnt work. Then I bought an aftermarket external antenna for the router it just screws on and replaces the standard antenna and while that helped a little, I was still getting 1 or 2 out of 5 bars in the two rooms we used wireless devices the most. Streaming video or news audio or video or downloading podcasts was impossible. I found an extra Verizon Router in my pile of tech junk while cleaning up and then got the idea to make a second wireless network upstairs. Sure, I could set it up easily with another SSID service set identifier a wireless network name but that would be cheesy and my devices wouldnt roam smoothly between networks. Heres the trick, thanks to some friends on Twitter and a little thought. The Starting Point. In my case, I had a standard Verizon Action. Enable Ssid Broadcast Vista' title='Enable Ssid Broadcast Vista' />
Tec router with the IP of 1. Thats a static non changing address. The router has DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol turned on, which means that this router hands out IP Addresses to my devices. It hands out those addresses in a certain range, specifically 1. Your router will likely vary, but on this one you navigate to My Network, My Network Connections, then click on the Edit icon on the main network interface. Youll end up here Notice the Start IP Address and End IP Address. Youll want to change this to 1. As an aside, you really should make sure your wireless router is using WPA2 for wireless security. If youre using WEP, its about as effective as tissue paper, so change it to WPA2 with a strong password or find a techie nephew to do it for you. Next, turn off your first primary wireless router completely. Routers arent expecting folks to do what were doing, so when you turn on the second router it will also default to 1. Youre turning off the first so the second can be changed. Turn on the second router and set its static IP address to 1. Under IP Address Distribution, set it to disabled. Its important that you dont have TWO devices on your network passing out IP Addresses. This second router will only be bridging the wireless and wired world at your house. It has no responsibilities around IP addresses. Heres an unnecessary diagram Make sure the wireless settings of the second router is the same as the first router. Same SSID, same security type, same password. The only difference will be the channel. Moreover, well want to make sure the channels are sufficiently far apart. Of course, if youre rich and famous and have a HUGE area to cover, you can add a third wireless access point and just make sure that third AP uses a channel thats sufficiently far away from the other two. Try to make the second router be 5 away from the first routers channel. The guidance is channels 1, 6 and 1. I used 1. 1 for the first and 6 for the second. Heres a great chart showing the channel spread from Wikipedia. I used channels 1. Of course, youll need an ethernet run going from a LAN port on your first router to a LAN port on your second router. In my case, each room has ethernet in the wall goingn to a gigabit switch. I pluged the second router into the wall from its LAN port and it worked. Reboot everything, plug them all in and there you go. Just thirty minutes later and Im happily streaming video to my wireless portable devices in parts of my house that were previously useless. Technical Summary. First Router 1. 92. DHCP to use the range 1. A wireless channel like 1. Second Router. 19. DHCP is disabled. Identical wireless security setup as First Router. Except the wireless Channel. Try channel 6 if the first is 1. Plug hard wire into the LAN port, not the WAN port. BSD1 Bring down the interface ifconfig xl. Enter new MAC address ifconfig xl. AA AA AA3 Bring up the interface ifconfig xl. Linux. 1 Bring down the interface ifconfig eth. Enter new MAC address ifconfig eth. AA AA AA3 Bring up the interface ifconfig eth. Windows 2. 00. 0XPMethod 1 This is depending on the type of Network Interface Card NIC you have. If. you have a card that doesnt support Clone MAC address, then you have to go. Go to Start Settings Control Panel and double click on Network and. Dial up Connections. Right click on the NIC you want to change the MAC address and click on. Under General tab, click on the Configure buttond Click on Advanced tabe Under Property section, you should see an item called Network Address. Locally Administered Address, click on it. On the right side, under Value, type in the New MAC address you want to. NIC. Usually this value is entered without the between. MAC address numbers. Goto command prompt and type in ipconfig all or net config rdr to. If the changes are not materialized, then use the second. If successful, reboot your system. Method 2 This should work on all Windows 2. XP systemsa Go to Start Run, type regedt. Do not use. Regedit. Go to HKEYLOCALMACHINESYSTEMCurrent. Control. Set ControlClass4. D3. 6E9. 72 E3. 25 1. CE BFC1 0. 80. 02. The Computer Arts Book Of Inspiration Pdf. BE1. 03. 18. Double click on it to expand the tree. The subkeys are 4 digit numbers. You should see it starts with. Find the interface you want by searching for the proper Driver. Desc key. d Edit, or add, the string key Network. Address has the data type REGSZ. MAC address. e Disable then re enable the network interface that you changed or reboot. Method 3 Use the program Etherchange from http ntsecurity. Windows 9x. Use the same method as Windows 2. XP except for the registry key location. HKEYLOCALMACHINESystem Current. Control. SetServicesClassNet and you.