Amazon Device randomly showing up on Network.

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2017-10-08T00:11:54+00:00

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I've got a random Amazon KFAUWI device showing up on my network as a device beside my driver for my router. Can anyone help? I am sure it is not a device in my house, as everything is set to something we've done or one of our names. Can anyone tell me if i'm stupid or if this is a general happening?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-02-25T19:45:58+00:00

    Austin has a friend now. This is really annoying, but I think we are on the wrong forum to get to the bottom of it.  Amazon needs to explain what's going on.  I have Verizon FiOS, three Echo devices, the Amazon music app on one computer and the Alexa and Music Apps on my phone. 

    One of them is being shifty and spawning Douglas on my network.  Why I have a Douglas and not an Austin, I don't know. The three Echos I have are an Echo (2nd gen), a Dot (2nd gen) and a Spot with calling not registered.  

    No, my name is not Douglas.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-22T17:01:21+00:00

    Same question that I asked above:  Why did you obscure the device's MAC address?  I would like to block it on my router too!

    I just discovered the same random Amazon KFAUWI today named "austin" on my network. It was listed in Devices under a separate category of devices named "Computers" instead of the rest of our network PC's which are listed under "Computer."

    We have Comcast Business for internet and phones. There is a random XFINITY open wifi that broadcasts very close to us and started appearing in the weeks after our new modem was installed in October but I assumed that was the neighbors wifi. Our new Comcast modem does have a built in router which is in use by one device as a guest network, and it doesn't broadcast its SSID.

    I saw something about Dell in the previous posts. I also have a Dell device but our external drives and shared network aren't Dell so I'm not sure how that could be related. More concerned about Comcast if it's a modem vulnerability. 

    The external hard drive connected to our shared network drive randomly ejected, which is when I saw we had unknown "austin" on our network in the first place. Then I clicked on the unknown austin device, viewed properties, and refreshed the 'view devices on network' page, and within a minute our external hard drive reconnected and austin disappeared. 

    I took this snapshot before austin got away: 

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-22T16:59:39+00:00

    I currently (28nov2017) have the same issue. 

    Just found a site which identifies this device as an Amazon Fire 7 2017 Tablet.

    https://www.handsetdetection.com/properties/devices/Amazon/KFAUWI

    Still don't know how they are on my network unless it's part of Comcast Xfinitys "Free" WiFi created by Comcast to allow others to use all paid subscribers networks when they are supposedly away from home. I have also seen an Amazon Echo on my network as well. And Comcast wants to Kill Net Neutrality! Neighbors I suspect!  

    Why did you obscure the device's MAC address?  I would like to block it on my router too!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-20T10:31:32+00:00

    I know this is going to sound a bit crazy.  However I have spent 3 full days testing this theory and I am afraid I may have some very bad news.  After running a protocol analyzer I was able to trace the MAC address to a device that was not on my network, not an Amazon device at all.  OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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