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How to change your PC's MAC address

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In this post, we will see what is MAC Address and how to change a MAC Address in Windows10. What does a MAC address exactly mean? A MAC address (Media Access Control address) is a unique identifier assigned to every Network Interface Card. It's like IMEI numbers of mobile phones. While most of us believe that it is the IP address that is significant in contacting another computer on the network, MAC is more important than IP (Internet Protocol) address. Each network interface card, called NIC for short, has a MAC address like a postal address so that the data packets travelling on your network can reach the correct NIC and from your computer's. While the IP address is the software part of the NIC, the MAC address is hardware one. Without it, data packets will just keep on roaming on the network, as they do not have any address where to deliver the data. Each data packet on the network has a header containing MAC address of the computer you want to connect to. The l...

How to check safety of your ports

Hi guys! 🎈 In this text, I'm going to inform you about how to find out whether or not your ports are open, by spending your two or three minutes. 😊 You can check the first 1055 ports. Although Internet ports are numbered from 1 through 65535, the first 1023 ports are special and essential to check up. If you like, you can follow the manual steps , which is safer than the other method I'm going to mention. To uncover ports on stand-by mood :  Start > Run > CMD > netstat-an |find /i ''listening'' To uncover active ports  :  Start > Run > CMD > netstat-an |find /i ''established'' In order to see these results in more detailed form, you can add this code at the end of the main code:  c:\openports.txt .   Thus, you'll see them as written in a file created. Instead, the other alternative is this website:   https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2. This website belongs to the Gibson Research Corporation, so could...