i.p address blacklisted at school?

[Gballa]

my computer teacher basically blacklisted me from our school's internet, and I'm scared to talk to him (he doesn't know who I am) because i KNOW he will take my computer away. I am guessing that he somehow blacklisted my i.p or something idk but when i go to my airport and click on the network it tries for 1 second and gives up. I am on a macbook 13" and do i need to change my i.p address or what? PLease help me

 

[DocStone]

Is your IP Dynamic? If so, just restart your router and computer and it should issue you a new IP. If not, you have a static IP and then things get interesting. Try that though I would imagine.

 

[Gballa]

hmmm well im not sure how I would reset my school's routers but what if I connected to only one specific router with istumbler???

 

[DocStone]

Ahh, I see. You are trying to connect from inside the school. I thought you were trying to connect to the school site from your home. My bad.

Hmm, I don't know. I am not that good with IT but try restarting your computer and trying to connect.

Anyone else with more ideas, please let me know too.

 

[Gballa]

Yea i tried this and I get the same results...i tried dhcp with manual i.p but i cant connect anyways so it didnt matter

 

[DocStone]

Very interesting. What were you doing to get you blacklisted?

 

[Gballa]

Well, he imaged all of our comps but he is cool with us booting off our external hard drives (which is what i was doing) but i was booting in school to use stuffit

 

[monke]

Just throwing this out there, but would using a proxy work?

I have no idea, and no knowledge on this level really.
Why would the IT teacher take your computer away though?

 

[Gballa]

well they pay a techie to image the computers and its like 60 dollars an hour and they purposefully take like 3 so thats money out of my pocket cause my teacher would want to reimage my compr

 

[dukebound85]

i take it its not your computer? but one the school loaned you?

 

[Gballa]

nope i purchased it in full rather than renting it....so technically its mine but they still control it

 

[dukebound85]

nope i purchased it in full rather than renting it....so technically its mine but they still control it

if its yours, they have no right to control it

 

[brad.c]

1. if you PURCHASED it, by what right can he take it?
2. I don't understand what it was you did wrong, but:
Go to System Prefs, Network, Airport, Advanced, TCP/IP, and click on "Renew DHCP Lease"

BTW: It may be that he uses MAC address filtering, which you cannot reset.

 

[Gballa]

yes u are exactly right...i just learned that he filtered my mac address but i am looking into spoofmac and change mac...both of which claim to change one's mac address

 

[GimmeSlack12]

I would imagine your MAC address has been banned. If that's the case you're pretty much screwed.

 

[brad.c]

In that case: swap the airport card on your MB, and behave!

 

[dukebound85]

why would he ban your address? maybe you just need to talk to him about it

In that case: swap the airport card on your MB, and behave!

or get a wifi usb dongle would work too

 

[Gballa]

lol any help with change mac i am at this point now what the heck is the vendor stuff i click set new address but nothing changes....i am not connected to anything with my airport is that why the mac address isn't changing?

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

MAC address changing works best when done through the terminal. It reverts back to the original address on each restart, so you'll need to change it every time you boot up your computer.

See here:
http://osxdaily.com/2008/01/17/how-to-spoof-your-mac-address-in-mac-os-x/