I'm seeing phones on my network

[HarryM1BYT]

W10, looking at the items on my Network (as I have been doing often, over the past few days due to my readyshare issues) I am seeing numerous different phones modesl show up at the bottom under 'Phones'. There are three at the moment listed there, none of those listed are our phones.

My wifi is locked down with WPA2 and a password I set. As near as I can tell, they don't show up in the list of Attached Devices on either router. Are these passing phones connecting or not?

[Kennyeth]

Originally Posted by HarryM1BYT

W10, looking at the items on my Network (as I have been doing often, over the past few days due to my readyshare issues) I am seeing numerous different phones modesl show up at the bottom under 'Phones'. There are three at the moment listed there, none of those listed are our phones.

My wifi is locked down with WPA2 and a password I set. As near as I can tell, they don't show up in the list of Attached Devices on either router. Are these passing phones connecting or not?

Harry, could it be some of your other equipment like a TV that the router has nothing in it`s listing? and called them phones?
Ken.

[Avulon]

Post a screenshot so we can see better what you are describing. In any case go change your Wifi password - 10 characters min include capital letters and numbers - randomize it or at least don't use anything like proper words - no 'h4k3r733t' words either! Make sure WPS (wifi protected setup) is turned off on the router: some implementations are easily hacked remotely. Double check that you are using WPA2 only.

Second - are you on BT?

Third: just occurred to me that you may have bluetooth switched on on your PC - are these bluetooth devices that are being seen?

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by Kennyeth

Harry, could it be some of your other equipment like a TV that the router has nothing in it`s listing? and called them phones?
Ken.

I did a search for the model it suggested and they are definitely models of phones. All we have TV wise, is the Firestick and that shows as Firestick.

Originally Posted by Avulon

Post a screenshot so we can see better what you are describing. In any case go change your Wifi password - 10 characters min include capital letters and numbers - randomize it or at least don't use anything like proper words - no 'h4k3r733t' words either! Make sure WPS (wifi protected setup) is turned off on the router: some implementations are easily hacked remotely. Double check that you are using WPA2 only.

Second - are you on BT?

Third: just occurred to me that you may have bluetooth switched on on your PC - are these bluetooth devices that are being seen?

Bluetooth is off.
I'm on Plusnet, but using my own routers.
WPS is set to off on both routers.

Difficult to grab a screen shot, because it would only show an odd one or two and occasionally. None listed at the moment. They are definitely phones, they are listed as HTC???, Vodaphone??? and etc., but strangely none of them are our own phones - which are connected. No Iphone, no Nokia, no Windows phone in the list. There is a regular couple of them which show up, I am assuming they are next door, but most just show for a few seconds. I am sure no one can be hacking in.

We have lots of commuters going past, on their phones. I wonder if it might be listing them as they pass?

[Kennyeth]

Originally Posted by HarryM1BYT

I did a search for the model it suggested and they are definitely models of phones. All we have TV wise, is the Firestick and that shows as Firestick.



Bluetooth is off.
I'm on Plusnet, but using my own routers.
WPS is set to off on both routers.

Difficult to grab a screen shot, because it would only show an odd one or two and occasionally. None listed at the moment. They are definitely phones, they are listed as HTC???, Vodaphone??? and etc., but strangely none of them are our own phones - which are connected. No Iphone, no Nokia, no Windows phone in the list. There is a regular couple of them which show up, I am assuming they are next door, but most just show for a few seconds. I am sure no one can be hacking in.

We have lots of commuters going past, on their phones. I wonder if it might be listing them as they pass?

Do Plusnet do a sharing thing like BT Fon ? I see school kids sometimes out side with head into phones, Probably have BT at home so they can get online with ......what does it say....5 million places
Good luck though.
Ken.

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by Kennyeth

Do Plusnet do a sharing thing like BT Fon ? I see school kids sometimes out side with head into phones, Probably have BT at home so they can get online with ......what does it say....5 million places
Good luck though.
Ken.

I had heard of that, but no idea how it worked, though I notice there is someone local to me with such an access point showing when I do a scan. I would have thought that would only work when the router is BT supplied, neither of mine are.