A freeware program (with source code) that allows you to change the MAC ID of your network adapter.
Overview by the author:
My cable ISP does something really unusual and annoying - they lock a cable modem to the N/W card's MAC Address, thereby disallowing an user from either changing his network card or using a different machine. When my dad visits me, this is most inconvenient as he cannot plug his laptop to the internet and I don't have a LAN at home he can plug into. A Linuxian friend of mine suggested that I change the MAC ID - which is apparently a one-command operation on Linux based machines. I googled around and found that changing the MAC under Windows involved changing certain registry values and resetting the network adapter. I barely trust my dad with his laptop, so you can imagine how I felt about trusting him to modify the registry and reset network adapters. I am not particularly crazy about coding, I do it for a living as well as an off-work hobby - but I thought it'd be a prudent idea to write a GUI app for my dad in my spare time. That's how MAC Address Changer for Windows XP/2003 came into being.

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