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Every device connected to a network has an IP address. It is a unique identifier that locates your computer or Mac on the network. Your Mac connects to the internet through a network or router; which ...

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 ...

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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 ...

An IP address is a long string of numbers or hexadecimals (numbers and letters) used to identify your business computer when you're online. In addition to your computer's IP address, there is also a ...

The MAC address of your computer is the static physical address of the hardware your computer uses to connect to the network. This is in opposition to your computers IP address, which changes and ...

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 ...