Nokia N95

Panther · #1 08-04-2007, 01:25 AM

I did a search to no avail. I have my router set up with WEP and have MAC address's all approved to be on my home network, which I think is an extra blanket of security. I cannot find the mac address for the N95. How do I go about finding it? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

TMAC01 · #2 08-04-2007, 01:56 AM

hey panther, type *#62209526# into your phone. youll get the MAC

Panther · #3 08-04-2007, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by TMAC01

hey panther, type *#62209526# into your phone. youll get the MAC

MAC thanks for the quick response!

geoffbaker · #4 08-04-2007, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TMAC01

hey panther, type *#62209526# into your phone. youll get the MAC

That doesn't work for me; Tmobile does not support all the nokia service messages.

Instead, I found it is printed on the label underneath the battery. You'll need a good magnifying glass, though!

Homer · #5 08-22-2007, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Panther

I did a search to no avail. I have my router set up with WEP and have MAC address's all approved to be on my home network, which I think is an extra blanket of security.

MAC filtering on top of WEP is a tissue paper blanket of security. If anyone comes along who can crack WEP then spoofing your MAC address will be trivial.

Get a router which supports WPA if you want real security.

Tizbad2k · #6 08-22-2007, 06:23 PM

Usually mac filtering is enough for the home user who has nothing to hide (legitimate or illegitimate). It helps by simply not allowing your neighbors to connect to your network.

Ofcourse it is really very easy to spoof a mac address. But from my past experience (things may have changed) it takes a wifi card with monitor mode to actually sniff out the mac address (plain text). And if someone has gone to lengths to acquire such a card (myself), they will generally have no issue with breaking either WEP or WPA, if they are patient and persevere. As I recall it took me over two weeks to collect enough packets to break WEP. Ofcourse my network doesnt have a huge amount of traffic, but the point is if they want to, they can break in.

And if you simply just want to make it hard for people to accidentally log on to your network, hiding you ssid and mac filtering is good enough.