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Phantom devices showing up
The Attached devices list for my router has been showing A) a Netgear Meural photo frame, yet I've never owned such a device; B) an old computer which is switched off. I don't understand how this ...
Re mobile devices: mixed results. The List shows one laptop, and shows an "Android" device (with a 16 digit alphanum item after "android". However there are three mobile devices actively on this network, not two as just noted in the List. (I have two Samsung phones and a Lenovo laptop that are currently attached to the network.) Possible coincidence: the Android item listed in the Netgear List is 192.168.1.3, and when I run SoftPerfect Network Scanner is says that that IP is for the (ghost) Netgear Meural photo frame -- which I don't own. Is the Meural type of device an Android device? I don't know. But if it is, then neither of the two Samsung android phones currently on the network are showing up in the List.