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OK, you got your Xbox One; maybe you waited at Best Buy all night to pick it up, but now you're back at your college dorm and you have a problem. In order to connect your Xbox One to the Internet, you must have the MAC address. OK, you got your Xbox One; maybe you waited at Best Buy all night to pick it up, but now you're back at your college dorm and you have a problem. In order to connect your Xbox One to the Internet, you must have the MAC address.
First thing's first. What is a MAC address? You can have a MAC address even though the Xbox One is not an Apple product. MAC is short for media access control address and is the unique identifier to connect your device to the network. A lot of universities use them to make sure that you're actually a student on campus and to track you down if you commit an infraction on their network. Just something to keep in mind.
I know what a MAC address is. How do I get it? OK, set up your Xbox One like you normally would, let the set up fail and then use the troubleshooter. It'll show you the MAC address.
What you're looking for will say 'Set Up Network.' Redditor Chicago31 explained it best here: For anyone wondering, mess around with the setting up a network options. The menus are all similar but different, so fail a test and try to find anything about changing network settings or setting up a network. I went to set up a network, gave it a one character name, failed a test, and then the screen gave me my MAC address. All of this will happen before the update (cause the update is coming from the Internet you cannot connect to. Still not working.Now what?
Unfortunately this has now fallen into the realm of your university's IT department. Some colleges and universities do things a bit differently and you may have to contact them so they can manually authorize your device. This could be because your university is overly protective, or just doesn't recognize consoles out of the box. It could take a couple of days for the university to whitelist consoles.
Also, it is day 1, so keep that in mind. Servers are going to be super busy today, especially with the release update and people contacting for technical issues.
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If you want to use online play for your network enabled game console on ResNet, you will need to register your device manually. To do this, you will need the MAC address of the console.
This is a 12 digit number (usually separated by “:” or “-“) that contains numbers 0-9 and/or letters A-F. If your game console isn’t listed here, just try Googling MAC address and the name of your console. Sometimes MAC address is listed as Hardware Address, Ethernet Address, Wired Address, or Physical Address. Northwestern seems to maintain a great.
Nintendo Switch. From the Home menu, select System Settings. Select Internet. View System MAC address. Nintendo Wii U.
From the Wii U menu, select System Settings. Select Internet. Select View MAC address. Nintendo Wii. From the main Wii Menu select the Wii Options button (bottom left corner).
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Select Wii Settings. Select the right arrow to move to the second page of system settings. Select Internet. Select Console Information. On this screen you’ll see the MAC Address. Nintendo DS. From within a Wi-Fi enabled game, go to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Setup in the game’s menu.
Select Options. Select System Information.
The MAC address is displayed on the top line. NVIDIA Shield. select Settings. select Device. select Network. select Status info.
Xbox One. Go to Settings. Select Network.
Select Advanced Settings. The MAC address is on this screen. Xbox 360. Go to the System area of the Xbox Dashboard and select Network Settings. Select Edit Settings. From Additional Settings, select Advanced Settings. At the bottom of this screen you’ll see a heading called Wired MAC Address.
Xbox. Power on the Xbox with no disc in the tray. Go to the Xbox Dashboard.
Choose Xbox Live. Go to the Connect Status screen. Select Settings. From the Network Settings screen, you will see the MAC address in the bottom right corner. PlayStation Vita. Open the Settings and tap Start.
Tap System. Tap System Information. The MAC is on this screen. PlayStation 4. Power up the PlayStation 4 without a disc in the drive. Once the PlayStation 4 operating system has loaded, select Settings. Select the System option under the Settings menu.
Select System Information. You can find the MAC address on this screen. PlayStation 3. Power up the PlayStation 3 without a disc in the drive. Once the PlayStation 3 operating system has loaded, select Settings. Once you are in Settings select Network Settings. Select Connection Status List.
You can find the MAC address listed under MAC Address.