How Do I Find Mac Filter ID?

I am very new to this and am in need of help. I just set up my HP Paviolion notebook to my wirless network. I was told that I need to secure the network by adding the notebook mac filter id to the network. I hope I'm phrasing this correctly. In any case, were do I find the mac filter id, and how do I add it?

thanks!

 

Go to Start > Run (or Windows Key + R), type cmd

Command window should come up (looks like dos kinda)...type in "ipconfig /all"

Look for the appropriate network card and should be listed next to physical address

 

And so you have an idea of what you're doing, a MAC address is a hardware address (data link layer) that every network adapter and device has, and which are regulated to be kept unique. Thus, they're very good for whitelisting, as they never change with software configuration. They can be spoofed, however, so don't feel completely safe. Make sure you're using encryption in addition to your MAC filtering.

MAC addresses are actually used for all the addressing between computers, IP and other addresses are translated to and from mostly for the sake of human interaction.

Oh, and if you can already access the network without adding your MAC address, then this type of filtering is probably disabled on your firewall/router, or not stringent enough to restrict your uses. Unless you have very sensitive data, I probably wouldn't bother setting it up. Just make sure you're using an encryption key.

 

And so when you've located the MAC address of ur NIC card via the process that DFI pointed out, to add it to ur wireless 'network' as u call it. Means that u need to add it to ur wireless router. You can log in to ur wireless router and configure MAC address filtering by first..noting ur default gateway..using the same ipconfig method...put that IP address in ur web browser..log into ur router and configure MAC filtering by adding ur MAC address first and enabling the feature.