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Google Home, Talk to Netgear, Guest Network.
Hi, I have managed to get my google home mini set up and am able to "talk to Netgear", however when I ask it to enable or disable guest wifi it responds by asking me if I want to turn off a network w...
It gets worse! I have just realised it is not the ssid of my EX7000 but it is the ssid of one of my nieghbors! I asked netgear to enable it, which it apparently did and then it sent me an email showing me the guest network credentials which again showed my neighbors ssid but one of my own network passwords. The password is used on another ssid I sometimes run! What the hell is going on? My neighbor is on EE in the UK and Im 99% sure his router isn't netgear and Im 100% sure he's as thick as a brick with networking & pc's.!
It gets worse! I have just realised it is not the ssid of my EX7000 but it is the ssid of one of my nieghbors! I asked netgear to enable it, which it apparently did and then it sent me an email showing me the guest network credentials which again showed my neighbors ssid but one of my own network passwords. The password is used on another ssid I sometimes run! What the hell is going on? My neighbor is on EE in the UK and Im 99% sure his router isn't netgear and Im 100% sure he's as thick as a brick with networking & pc's.!
Thanks for all the replies, most informative.