Hi all (esp Patio).

HP Pavilion g6 lappy
Win8 (not 8.1) 6.2.9200 Build 9200 x64
AMD A4 -4300M 2.4ghz
BIOS Insyde F.17
SMBIOS Ver 2.7
Embedded Controller Ver 57.80
4GB RAM

Device Manager is clean. However, under Network Adapters, "Microsoft Kernel Debug Adapter" is running (is that advisable?)

BACKGROUND: A friend lost wifi connectivity at her home. I reset the cable modem and router which fixed it (her router isn't set for MAC filtering). Brought the machine to my place to look into why it was running slower than molasses in Winter. MSE and Malwarebytes were clean.


PROBLEM: I use MAC addy filtering on my home router. Ipconfig /all gave me the Wifi MAC addy but after configuring my router, the box wouldn't connect. A few minutes later, I re-check the MAC addy with ipconfig /all but the last digit had changed. Turns out, every few minutes, the MAC addy changes. It alternates between the same 2 addresses (not just random ONES). And only the last digit changes each time.

Connects fine via network cable.

Thanks in advance!
Just a general observation.:
The MAC is part of the Network Interface hardware.
The specific device maybe be either an Ethernet device or a 802.11 WIRELESS device. If the wireless device changed one digit, it suggests the hardware is defective. Also, software may emulate a MAC, but changing one digit would not be an expected behavior.
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A media access control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. MAC addresses are used as a network address for most IEEE 802 network technologies, including Ethernet. Logically, MAC addresses are used in the media access control protocol sublayer of the OSI reference model.

MAC addresses are most often assigned by the manufacturer of a network interface controller (NIC) and are stored in its hardware, such as the card's read-only memory or some other firmware mechanism. If assigned by the manufacturer, a MAC address usually encodes the manufacturer's registered identification number and may be referred to as the burned-in address (BIA). It may also be known as an Ethernet hardware address (EHA), hardware address or physical address. This can be contrasted to a programmed address, where the host device issues commands to the NIC to use an arbitrary address.
A network node may have multiple NICs and each NIC must have a unique MAC address.
MAC addresses are formed according to the RULES of one of three numbering name spaces managed by the Institute of ELECTRICAL and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): MAC-48, EUI-48, and EUI-64. ...

Currently this feature is a development platform that exists only for application developers. Since this is a development platform any support would need to go through the application developer.

Found this:
What is Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter Which means ... If you don't know what it is, you don't want it.
Remove it. (After setting a restore point).

But read the MS article. They claim it is needed sometimes. And it goers on to a four page rant.