Damn I just lost another page of text....

First my router is an R7000p; my reading of the intro was that router model is optional and in this context ought to be irrelevant - the point is that an unauthorised device appears to be able to get on to my network without the password and any modern router should protect equally well. And for the record I did fill in the box. So this app and forum has yet another mechanical problem. It's doing weird things when I hit some key (but I dont know which) including dropping out altogether.

Second No sarcasm was intended in what I wrote previously. If it appeared that way I apologise. I was I thought writing to confirm my support and agreement with what you had written namely that you had to the best of your ability, proven that the intruder was a real one, not a misrecognition of your own device, as I had done likewise. I was in this context disappointed with the apparent way it had been dismissed. But be very clear, It was not I who wrote about psychic powers and searches and stuff. Clearly this forum has a problem in that it is hard to ensure that your post always correctly identifies the target and the sender.

Now I have your latest post, reporting that it may be a Microsoft problem and therefore not a Netgear issue at all. I need to think long and hard on this, not because I am any fan of Microsoft any more, but because it is hard to envisage how it could be seen at all unless there were something to trigger the report. I agree the device didnt show up in the Attached list but that's not that quick to respond anyway; and depending on what's happening it is very easy to not see things there even when you are specifically looking for them. So, and no sarcasm intended, it's a bit like Bigfoot's footprint. It doesn't actually prove Bigfoot exists, but it's very hard to account for otherwise. It could still be easier to catch Bigfoot, than whoever is faking it.....

And on that note, I'm out. I wont be contributing to or following this forum any longer.

I am happy that my network is working well enough and secure enough that I have no major concerns. And this is all taking up time and effort I no longer wish to expend.

Goodbye all. Arthur T.

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