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
    2017-12-10T18:02:55+00:00

    I agree. My system is bespoke, too. (And the mystery device has vanished, for the time being.)

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-10T19:11:30+00:00

    Just speculating on the Dell thing. However, I've built my own in the past and they do hold a lot of patents on the parts and pieces. Still a person of interest, IMO. Besides, my efforts were moot. It came back, disappeared again and now there's another unknown named "full ford" and it's disappeared, just as quickly as I'm typing and "austin" disappeared again. The Comcast scenario is also of interest. I use Comcast and don't put anything past them. It makes me wonder if it's cars passing by? Time to increase security.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-28T23:50:22+00:00

    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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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-29T01:15:46+00:00

    I just learned our Comcast Business modem has an XFINITY hotspot built in. That is our modem/router broadcasting, not the neighbors. >:|

    Comcast Business is providing an all-in-one D3 wireless device: the Comcast Business Wireless Gateway (BWG). The Business Wireless Gateway provides Comcast Business Internet customers with:

    • Business IP Gateway
    • Private WiFi network for business use
    • XFINITY® WiFi hotspot service

    From: https://business.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/comcast-business-wireless-gateway-overview-wifi/

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