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How to find your Sky+HD box mac address
Posted 08-02-2011 at 03:20 PM by xeron
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If you are a Sky+HD TV subscriber, and also have Sky broadband, all you have to do to use the new Anytime+ video on demand service is connect the ethernet port on your set top box to your broadband router, and request activation on the sky website.
Great, except that my router is in a different room to my Sky+HD box, and I don't want to move them together, or run a wire through. So, instead I bought a WiFi to ethernet bridge, which allows you to use any wired ethernet device as a WiFi device (I bought this one).
Before attaching the wifi bridge to the sky box, you need to configure it. To do this, you just install the software on the included CD on your windows computer, plug in the wifi bridge, and run the setup wizard. The wizard finds the bridge, scans for wireless networks, and lets you configure it. I did so, and after adding the ethernet port mac address of my laptop to the whitelist on my router, and disabling the built in wifi on my laptop, I could still access the internet through the wifi bridge.
I disconnected the wifi bridge, and hooked it up to the Sky+HD box. I configured the TCP/IP settings on the Sky+HD box, and then went to find the mac address for the whitelist of the router... except that i couldn't find it in the setup menus anywhere, or on the box itself. A quick google found quite a few people with the same problem, but no solution.
So, here is how you find your Sky+HD box mac address:
* Give the box a static IP address that is valid for your network
* Disable mac address filtering on your wifi router
* On your PC, try to ping the Sky+HD box. It won't respond to pings, but that doesn't matter.
* Type "arp -a", and you'll see the mac address next to the IP address you gave the box
Now you can add it to the whitelist, and turn mac address filtering back on.
I have a vague recollection that the Sky broadband router whitelist editor will even give you a list of unrecognised mac addresses, so if you're still using the standard Sky router wifi, you might be able to just give the Sky+ box a fixed IP, and find the mac that way. I use a linksys router for my wifi, because the wifi in the sky box is broken (and the linksys wifi is much faster anyway), so I had to do the above.
On a related note, I'm thinking of making my AmigaOne wireless using one of these bridges instead of a prism2 card, since it saves a PCI slot. If I get round to it, i'll share my experiences here.
Great, except that my router is in a different room to my Sky+HD box, and I don't want to move them together, or run a wire through. So, instead I bought a WiFi to ethernet bridge, which allows you to use any wired ethernet device as a WiFi device (I bought this one).
Before attaching the wifi bridge to the sky box, you need to configure it. To do this, you just install the software on the included CD on your windows computer, plug in the wifi bridge, and run the setup wizard. The wizard finds the bridge, scans for wireless networks, and lets you configure it. I did so, and after adding the ethernet port mac address of my laptop to the whitelist on my router, and disabling the built in wifi on my laptop, I could still access the internet through the wifi bridge.
I disconnected the wifi bridge, and hooked it up to the Sky+HD box. I configured the TCP/IP settings on the Sky+HD box, and then went to find the mac address for the whitelist of the router... except that i couldn't find it in the setup menus anywhere, or on the box itself. A quick google found quite a few people with the same problem, but no solution.
So, here is how you find your Sky+HD box mac address:
* Give the box a static IP address that is valid for your network
* Disable mac address filtering on your wifi router
* On your PC, try to ping the Sky+HD box. It won't respond to pings, but that doesn't matter.
* Type "arp -a", and you'll see the mac address next to the IP address you gave the box
Now you can add it to the whitelist, and turn mac address filtering back on.
I have a vague recollection that the Sky broadband router whitelist editor will even give you a list of unrecognised mac addresses, so if you're still using the standard Sky router wifi, you might be able to just give the Sky+ box a fixed IP, and find the mac that way. I use a linksys router for my wifi, because the wifi in the sky box is broken (and the linksys wifi is much faster anyway), so I had to do the above.
On a related note, I'm thinking of making my AmigaOne wireless using one of these bridges instead of a prism2 card, since it saves a PCI slot. If I get round to it, i'll share my experiences here.
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