I have 2 wireless cards with the same MAC address at the hotel

Jette Goldie · 2006-09-30T13:35:49+00:00

I have two working PCs with the same MAC address!How do the packets figure out which computer to go to?I have been travelling with two computers for weeks now staying at some German hotels whose wireless ISP sync with the MAC address of the wireless cards on my computers so I used MacMakeUp to make both computers have the same MAC address as I get my home email on my home PC and I get my work email on my work PC. Up until today, I was careful to boot only one computer at a time.I'm currently in a hotel in the UK which has free wireless to any MAC address and I forgot to reset the MAC address on the second PC back to the original. Both computers seem to be working wirelessly. How can that be?How can I have two working PCs with the same MAC address?Why don't the packets get confused as to which computer to go to?Jette