Mystery phone in network locations

AlecEiffel

Hi all,


I have a mystery phone appear sometimes in my network locations in W8. It is named o2_uk and according to the properties it is a HTC One S. Neither myself or my wife own one though we do connect our iphones to the wifi so you'd assume they'd show but they don't. This phone never shows in the list of connected devices on the router admin screen though. I even changed the wpa key just in case but it appeared again today. Any ideas??


Ta.

JJ_Egan

WiFi scanner on your phone and see if any neighbours have O2 wifi .

Mr_Toad

Is your broadband with BT?

Is it someone connecting to your BT FON Access point?

WTFH

Mr_Toad wrote: »

Is your broadband with BT?

Is it someone connecting to your BT FON Access point?

That wouldn't show up on the home network.

AlecEiffel

Thanks for the replies.

We're Sky and all the neighbours are too.

Just to be safe I turned off the wifi, and via Ethernet changed the router wifi key and admin pw to be sure before going back on wifi. Will keep an eye on it to see if it reappears. It's v strange.

I_have_spoken

Or your iPhones using O2 (or Tesco or Gifgaf)?

AlecEiffel

My phone is O2 but the properties tab identified the mystery phone as a htc.

spannerzone

I recall reading about a bug in Win7 (possibly Win8) that showed phones that weren't actively working on your network but were shown on the networking map. I can't find the articles right now but either it was a bug if I recall.

Mr_Toad

WTFH wrote: »

That wouldn't show up on the home network.

What a numpty, of course it wouldn't

What was I thinking!