Then, on the Xbox, use the alternate MAC capability to give the Xbox the MAC address of your PCs network adapter. Run IPCONFIG /ALL to find the MAC address of your Ethernet adapter on the PC. Note once you make this change you cannot use the PC network adapter on the same network as the Xbox One since they now have the same MAC address. Nope, he means MAC (Media Access Control) address. Every network card had it's own unique MAC address, so the Xbox actually has 2. One for the Ethernet port, and one for the wireless card. It's actually a good way of restricting access to a wireless network by setting up MAC address filtering, where only approved MAC addresses can connect.
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I just received an Xbox One X, am progressing through the initial setup and am stuck on the network section. The network that the console will connect to is wireless with a mac filter, so in order to connect to the network, the console's wireless MAC address is required. The MAC address is not present on the console, the documentation or the packaging. It doesn't appear that the network setup can be skipped and, after trying 10 times, it doesn't look like it fails (is it supposed to?), allowing the user to proceed (which, as an aside, was a terrible user experience on the Xbox One - There should be a SKIP / SET UP LATER option).
For this discussion, let's say there are no other network options, period (no hot spot, no wired connection, no temporarily turning off the wireless MAC filter, etc.). How does one proceed? Bonus rhetorical question: How did Microsoft allow this to happen?
Thank you.
Manual Mac Address Xbox One Fix
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