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wireless
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      01-22-2007, 08:07 PM
Hi,

I saw unexpected activity on my wireless router LED and when I logged
onto the router's administration page to check what was going on, it
showed a second device on my LAN with a MAC address and computer/device
name that I don't recognise.

Do cordless phones have a MAC address? Is there any possibility at all
that my cordless phone could be somehow connecting or interfering with
my 128-bit WEP secured wireless router?

Thanks.

 
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      01-22-2007, 08:42 PM
Sorry, cordless phones, while using the same frequency, do not use the
same signalling method over that frequency. So this would not be the
phone.

Chris

 
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      01-22-2007, 09:45 PM

"wireless" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I saw unexpected activity on my wireless router LED and when I logged
> onto the router's administration page to check what was going on, it
> showed a second device on my LAN with a MAC address and computer/device
> name that I don't recognise.
>
> Do cordless phones have a MAC address? Is there any possibility at all
> that my cordless phone could be somehow connecting or interfering with
> my 128-bit WEP secured wireless router?
>

nope - MAC is from an ethernet type of device -
someone has found your AP, and is attempting to use it -


 
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      01-23-2007, 02:48 PM

"wireless" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I saw unexpected activity on my wireless router LED and when I logged
> onto the router's administration page to check what was going on, it
> showed a second device on my LAN with a MAC address and computer/device
> name that I don't recognise.
>

what was the MAC and device name ?


 
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Peter Pan
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      01-23-2007, 06:55 PM
wireless wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw unexpected activity on my wireless router LED and when I logged
> onto the router's administration page to check what was going on, it
> showed a second device on my LAN with a MAC address and
> computer/device name that I don't recognise.
>
> Do cordless phones have a MAC address? Is there any possibility at all
> that my cordless phone could be somehow connecting or interfering with
> my 128-bit WEP secured wireless router?
>
> Thanks.


Got a DVR? Some of them have a network device inside and appear as a
device... Matter of fact, I access mine over my wireless network...

How bout one of those tablet/laptops? Mine shows up as two devices....


 
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