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hyperlance
Guide
Jul 11, 2020

Phanton Devices

One of my daughters had some friends over recently and they all connected to the wifi. Now even 3 weeks later the router is saying these are still connected even though I've rebooted the router multi...
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hyperlance
Guide
Jul 15, 2020

Hrmmm very odd, they are all back.

 

Even when I go into the address reservenation now. Anyone seen this before?

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Christian_R
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 17, 2020

Hi hyperlance, 

 

May you hit the refresh button in the attached devices list located at the top right hand corner in the admin interface via web browser. 

 

Christian 

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    hyperlance
    Guide
    Jul 17, 2020

    Thanks Christian but one would have assumed I have already done that.

    In any case, one of those 192.168.1.16. When I ping it, it comes back as reply from 192.168.1.6: Destination host unreachable.

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      hyperlance
      Guide
      Jul 17, 2020

      Infact some of them are duplicating the IP Address with existing devices