is it possible to connect to wifi adapter with same mac address with a router?

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Look in the drivers properties and see if there is a option that says local administer address or mac address.

Editing the registry is not something I will even attempt to describe here. You mess that up and you get a dead machine that won't boot. You want to look under the general area of CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ but you have to find the long string of numbers that represents your card. Note this is slightly different between the various versions of windows. You will either find a variable called network address or you need to add one. Study long and hard before you make any type of registry change.

update...The link you posted is the general procedure....be very careful
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Can you give us a little more information, I don't understand what you are asking.

A wi-fi adapter and a router should never have the same MAC address - MAC addresses should be universally unique.

Or, are you asking about changing the MAC address of a wi-fi adapter to be the same as another device (the router)??
 
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1st of all bunle of thanks for ur so quick response
yes ur last sentence is my one question.
I means if mac address of my one wifi adapter is: E5:6E:8B:CE:D6:A0 and my other wifi booster has mac address is: a3:b6:23:5a:be:d5. And mac address of my 1st wifi booster is regestered/assigned in a wifi router which provide me internet access. Now i want to know that is it possible to change the mac address of my 2nd wifi adapter with the 1st booster's mac address (which is allowed by router) to access internet??? If yes how i change mac address permanently??
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You can't change the MAC permanently - it is set by the manufacturer.

You may be able to temporarily set the MAC address of the adapter - the key phrase is "Locally Administered MAC Address". It may be a setting under the advanced properties for the device - it depends on the device and driver. Note that even if this setting is available, you may not be able to set the MAC address that you need - the address may require the 'locally administered' bit (bit 7) in the MAC address to be set.
 
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It going to depend a lot on the drivers for the wireless card. Some it is a simple option in the properties in the driver. Others you need to edit the registry. Some of the microsoft written drivers will ignore the options to set it much like the promiscuous flags so you have to replace the drivers with non microsoft ones.

You will have to either research the particular card you have and if you find nothing try to find the exact chipset that the card uses and see if there is a documented solution. This tends to be easier to do on a linux machines widows machines try to prevent any hacking

You do need to be careful if both this device and the one you are attempting to clone are both active at the same time it will likely result in neither working correctly.
 
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bill001g

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Look in the drivers properties and see if there is a option that says local administer address or mac address.

Editing the registry is not something I will even attempt to describe here. You mess that up and you get a dead machine that won't boot. You want to look under the general area of CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ but you have to find the long string of numbers that represents your card. Note this is slightly different between the various versions of windows. You will either find a variable called network address or you need to add one. Study long and hard before you make any type of registry change.

update...The link you posted is the general procedure....be very careful
 
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