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Security Concerns. C7000v2
Hi All, the past 8 months i have been monitoring something strange on my network. As a tech illiterate, it has been an evolution in trying to understand what is happening. Hopefully there is eithe...
Hi Kitsap, thanks so much for the info. Yes, i have seen that and confirmed that DLNA is NOT enabled on my settings.and i have used the linked as a guide to inspect the expectation.
as for a crowded RF environment, that is a negative. I live in a fairly rural area and although i can see my neighbors, none are close enough to interfere via their equipment.
Can you please advise what your answer would have been had i said yes? i am interested in this because although i am not in a crowded RF area, perhaps the solution lies a the manufactured RF environment from a party trying to infiltrate the network.
thanks so much!
HeadPhoneJack wrote:Hi Kitsap, thanks so much for the info. Yes, i have seen that and confirmed that DLNA is NOT enabled on my settings.and i have used the linked as a guide to inspect the expectation.
as for a crowded RF environment, that is a negative. I live in a fairly rural area and although i can see my neighbors, none are close enough to interfere via their equipment.
Can you please advise what your answer would have been had i said yes? i am interested in this because although i am not in a crowded RF area, perhaps the solution lies a the manufactured RF environment from a party trying to infiltrate the network.
thanks so much!
If you had a crowded RF environment with a number of "electronically" close neighbors, it could complicate the process of tracking down the device where the DLNA server is running.
Any number of devices connected to your network can be host to a DLNA media server besides your router. Computers, phones, tablets, televisions, game stations, etc. can often be configured, or by default are configured for a media server.
Through the application you provided the screen shot from, or from the router user interface, click or double tap on the connection to reveal additional details. What you are looking for is a MAC address of the device where the connection is associated.
Do a web search for the MAC address. The first three groups of alpha numeric characters should identify a manufacturer. It may not be a manufacturer you recognize as it could be the manufacturer of the Wi-Fi radio in the device you are trying to identify. Not the manufacture's name on the outside.
If per chance the MAC address you identify is the address of your router, then you have not been successful in shutting down the server running on your router. Remember it is not unusual for devices to have multiple MAC addresses. For instance, a router could have one for the Ethernet connections and one for each Wi-Fi radio band.
If you are connecting to a new iPhone, it has a MAC address randomize feature that can present several addresses to the connection. Newer Samsung phones as well as Windows 11 computers also have that feature.
This is great info. thanks so much for sharing!
By chance do you have anything connected to the USB port on your C7000v2?
HI,
Thanks for hanging in there with me.
This is getting to a point where it is a little scary. As I have been really trying to find out what's happening on my network, I noticed that my admin page, does not have all the options shown on any tutorials i have watched on the C7000v2. There is no option for Parental controls. JPG attached.
To answer your question, no, there is no USB attached. Confirmed and documented as far as picture from my FING app page and photo of the Gateway at the same time.-My Admin page is missing an option. Anything I have watched regarding Netgear products, have QOS or parental controls on the basic tab of the admin page, mine does not have anything of the sort. Similarly to the above questions, a photo, taken 6/22/22, has the menu option available. has there been an update since 6/22/22 that would have removed this from my basic tab? could someone spoof a log in page and keep this option off?
-It is clear there is something not right here. Is this something to contact Law enforcement about? My ISP? Netgear? who would care about this sort of anomaly?
