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Originally Posted by John
On all D-Link products, the MAC filtering applies to both the wired and wireless connections. A typical notebook has 2 MAC addresses, one for wired and one for the wireless. You did not mention that you entered the wired MAC address. Did you do this?
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Unless it's a super-fancy router with separate wireless and wired filter tables, the router doesn't care whether the connection is wired or wireless - all it's doing is matching the MAC address presented by the connecting adapter, to see if it's in the "allowed" list.
Think of it as a low-rent doorman - he doesn't care who you are, or which door you're trying to get in, as long as the name you give him is on his list.
Every network adapter has a unique MAC address given it by the builder, but it's so easy to assign a new MAC in the device properties, as Presto notes... so it's like giving the doorman someone else's name - as long as the name's the on the list, you're in.
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Originally Posted by z3german
Damn, alright Ill full reset and change it to a WPA or something.
Hopefully I can regain my Ethernet connection. Let you guys know
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Normally all you'd have to do is get into the settings from a device whose MAC is in the Allowed table... OR change the MAC on a connected adapter to one that's on the list. However, it sounds like you may have muddled something else up with all your stumbling around, in which case a full reset will just give you a clean slate... otherwise you may be fighting with MAC tables and wondering why it doesn't work, while there may be something else preventing the connection that you inadvertently changed.