This works with my phone: set phone as hotspot, connect truck to phone's wifi, look in phone under devices connected to the hotspot and the mac address of connected device displays.

 

I thought that when you set the truck to use the phone internet connection to create a WiFi hotspot, it was connecting to the phone through bluetooth? I would have to pay Verizon an extra monthly fee to get the phone as a hotspot. I haven't tested this yet, but was hoping the truck would connect via bluetooth to the phone and circumvent Verizon's restrictions. I have unlimited data.

 

I was only suggesting this for the people that just needed the truck's mac address to add it to their home router. I'm still unclear how you couldn't just connect to your home router without mac filtering on like others have said and then grab the mac addr that way. I have a Galaxy S7 with T-mobile and there's no charge for me setting my phone as a hotspot. I was able to do the same thing with the last 2 android phones I had also, not just this S7. This method doesn't need bluetooth at all.

 

Agree - I'm grandfathered under ATT and don't want to turn my hotspot on - I think it would let me but force me to another plan.

I don't know what kind of phone OP has, but I have an iPhone and I just found a good network scan app - FING, it found all 23 IP addresses in my house - and it's just almost scary that a single house would have 23 IP addresses in it, but it's pretty easy these days. Anyway, I digress - I will go out tomorrow and start the truck - connect the phone to the advertised truck network and scan - see if it will pull the IP and or MAC addressed. If so - might be another way vs letting it connect back to a hotspot.

I know from previous testing a few months back I connected the truck to my home network and then my phone to the truck - the network was pretty fast, but as already previously discussed, I cant find anything the truck can do with the network other than share it and when you pull away from range of the home network there is nothing more to share. I do think someone mentioned you are supposed to be able to add a mobile hot spot device to the truck and then share it should have one.

 

That's exactly what I just suggested he do.

Verizon, unfortunately, charges you for every little feature... No free wifi hotspot.

 

So - here it is. I used an iPhone, but I'm sure there is a tool for an Android or even use your laptop - find and download a free IP network scanner. There are lots of them around - I found one lastnight for the iPhone it is called FING. Go to your truck - setup a wireless network you can connect to. Connect your phone to the network - open FING and scan. You'll get the IP and the MAC address right below it for all devices on the network - your phone and your truck. The one for your truck is appropriately named Ford Motor Company.

 

Sparking up this necropost...again! Picking up my new truck today and it has Sync 3, thankfully (My Ford Touch was AWFUL)! Any changes in this song and dance that you're aware of? I don't have a wireless hotspot on my phone because through Verizon it costs extra - go figure - and it's not something I would use, what with WiFi available almost everywhere. I would still like to connect my truck to my Home WiFi so it can alert me to updates. I realize they are far and few between, but it's a nice feature, regardless.

 

Ditto on that. It would be of great benefit to the consumer to implement the ability to send the pre-planned routes from the computer or smartphone to the vehicle's GPS system via wifi.

Two additional wishlist features:

• Ability to select your route from a list of several predefined routes
• Ability to "record" a dry-run. Basically, you press the "record" button before you begin your journey, drive your own custom route and then save the driven route to your favorites so you can easily select it in the future.

 

I know this thread is fairly old, but I just bought a 2016 Ford F150 last night and I was trying to find the MAC address. I find it odd that in my 2016 C-MAX, which I traded in last year, I remember that I was able to view my MAC from within Sync3. I found it odd that this info was not available in my F150. I need to know my MAC address for allowing it on my wifi at home. I have other ways of finding it out, but I'm not at home at the moment and I was trying to figure out how to set it up before I got home. I just upgraded the firmware from v1.0 to v3.0 this morning and I had the XML file after the update. I noticed that it includes:

I noticed that there were two MAC addresses and they are said to be ECU MAC addresses. Are these the WiFi MAC addresses? Doesn't Bluetooth have it's own MAC address?

 

Yes, bluetooth has its own MAC. The easiest way would be to connect it to your home router/WAP, then go look at your DHCP lease table and grab the mac there.