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How to determine or find your MAC address?

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Any device that can connect to a network or to the Internet (PC, smartphone, tablet, TV, watch, enclosure, surveillance camera, etc.) has an identifier unique in the world: its MAC address. Here's how to get to know it. Contrary to what its name may make believe at first glance, the MAC address has absolutely no relation with Apple's famous computers, MAC being the acronym for Media Access Control. Composed of twelve hexadecimal characters, this address qualified as "physical" is used to uniquely identify any electronic object with a network interface, with or without wire, whatever its nature. Thus, all devices that can connect to a network (computer, telephone, tablet, game console, Internet box, printer, television, Wi-Fi repeater, enclosure, connected bulb, IP surveillance camera, connected watch, etc.) have at least one specific MAC address - more precisely, they have as many as network components. Obviously, there is no point in knowing by heart the MAC address