Rogue devices showing up on windows 8 network in file exporer.

Anonymous
2013-01-02T19:49:18+00:00

Hi everyone,

When I connect to my wireless network (very secure and complex WPA2 password), I go to File Explorer and the click on the "Network" at the bottom left of the window.  There continues to be a wireless device or phone that shows detected on the network.  I have seen three different devices and mac addresses since logging on this morning.  I have also checked the router and there is no record of these mac id's or devices on the router.  Where would these be coming from?  This doesn't show on my Windows 7 machines.  And also, I do not own any of these phones that are appearing on the network.  Any help would be appreciated. 

Thank You in advance for any help,

Phil

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-09-19T03:29:49+00:00

    Hi,

    my PC is running Windows 10, and I added the network short cut to the start menu. Like said above there is under phone some kind of device with only model and the MAC address.

    What scares me is the fact that it's name is peer device. So I know my windows phone is not it due to the different Mac address. But nothing makes sense about it because of the fact that why would the computer be saying there is a device with a MAC address. I fought that ment there was a that was real. If you can please give us a actual reason why this is going on that would be great. Because my Wi-Fi only goes do far and the people that live near me don't have much in technology.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-22T22:56:36+00:00

    I had this issue today and opened thisthread on superuser.

    Solution: I disabled WPS (also called WCN in Windows) on the router.

    If you have many PCs on the network, disabling the Windows service "Windows Connect Now" is not the best option. So, modifying the router setting for WPS stops this for all PCs.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-25T13:11:10+00:00

    oh so random devices just try to get on because all they need is a button pushed to let them in?

    so does that mean that someone is trying to get onto my router?

    I also had a texas instruments device and a some kind of random phone try to connect as well.

    if you double click on it, the device has a ip address it goes to in a browser. (I clicked out before it did anything.)

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-09-25T14:47:50+00:00

    ...the device has a ip address

    Look at the Properties image on Page 3, this devices should only show you a MAC address. If they have an IP assigned, probably they are connected to your network.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-09-30T12:48:13+00:00

    Yes but on the properties of the device in windows explorer it only shows a Mac address, but if you click on it it shows a ip addresses in the browser I'm using... Brand new router also so.. Please help

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