Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

When communicating over Wi-Fi, your iPhone needs to verify itself on the network before it can receive data—intended for it—on that network. It does this using a MAC address or Wi-Fi address. While ...

Find MAC address without Wi-Fi: Connect to a mobile hotspot > Connect to Wi-Fi > Show MAC address. This article explains how to find the MAC address for a device in the Google Home app. You can locate ...

If you know the IP address, enter it on ARIN WHOIS to view ownership. To find an IP address, open Command Prompt and enter: ping websitename.com. If you don't know the IP address, use Register.com, ...

A MAC address may be the address of your Mac, but they’re not interchangeable. MAC stands for Media (or Medium) Access Control, a geeky term for a part of network communications between the actual ...

Internet networking involves a lot of alchemy, and I confess to occasionally dropping an eye of newt (or an IP of newt) into a boiling pot to fix problems on my local network. There’s a particular ...

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