How to bypass router access control?

Question

For the past month, me and my father have been having a friendly war about the internet in my household. Basically, after 9:30 at night, he turns off my internet, by setting a schedule that stops a group of IP objects from accessing the internet (this includes my laptop, phone, iPod, etc.) Before this, he accidentally left the router password on my laptop, saved, so I was able to go in, and just change the IP objects to a different one, allowing my computer to connect.

Now that he has changed the password, I was wondering if there was a way to:

1. change my MAC address, so it won't bind to the same IP
2. have a different way of bypassing it.

This is all for fun and games, we both enjoy trying to figure out what the other has done.

The operating environment:
OS: Windows 8
Router: Draytek Vigor 2820

Solution

You can indeed change your MAC address on your Network Interface Card (NIC) in Windows options.

Start > Device Manager > Pick your network card from the list > Advanced tab

You should see this (please excuse my foreign Windows language):

From here you can change your MAC address. Windows accepts a MAC address with no dashes or spaces, so for example 01-23-45-67-89-ab should be entered as 0123456789ab.

The only way I can think of to bypass the router would be to factory reset it, then change the password away from the default password so your father cant access it and then start blocking his devices instead.

Comments

[Ravindra Bawane]

VPN does not obscure your connection IP on the router you are connected to. Different routers have different methods for cutting off access. In your case it sounds as though the router only blocks new connections, or only blocks port 80 (http/web) traffic.