Hi All,
I work from home and I have run into an issue with my new Belkin N750 router. When I use the Belkin (and only when I use the Belkin) 'unknown' (or, as I like to call them, 'rogue') computers show up on my home network.
I do not believe anything malicious is occurring, but I am trying to figure out why this is happening and how to prevent it.
INFO: My ISP is a local cable company (very local, not a regional or national company), I am running windows 7 and Mac OSX, have a Belkin router (NAT), a LAN and wireless.
On both the windows and mac machines I am seeing these 'unknown' computers on the network. In windows, they appear as 'computers' when I go to Network. I see my personal computers, and then I see up to 3 other computers.
None of which are mine, and none of which have names that I have ever used for a computer that I own.
Here is a screenshot: »avatar12.com/network.jpg - in that example, Blacksmith is the 'unknown' computer.
Another computer that occasionally shows up is "grandmascomputer" - this sort of makes me think I am, for whatever reason, seeing someone else's home network.
My wireless: My wireless network is protected using WPA/WPA2-Personal (PSK).
I have changed the SSID and Passwords and have looked at my router's DHCP table and the only computers listed there are my personal computers.
I am as certain as I can be that these 'unknown' computers are not piggybacking on my wireless. (Also, I have no neighbors - I live in the mountains... and there are no other houses around me)
More info: I am unable to access these computers, I am unable to ping them. I am not using a homegroup. I am not, nor have I ever, run hamachi, or any other vpn or network extending software/service.
Any ideas?
As mentioned. The problem does not occur with my old router. Nor does it happen with a new Linksys E1200
I work from home and I have run into an issue with my new Belkin N750 router. When I use the Belkin (and only when I use the Belkin) 'unknown' (or, as I like to call them, 'rogue') computers show up on my home network.
I do not believe anything malicious is occurring, but I am trying to figure out why this is happening and how to prevent it.
INFO: My ISP is a local cable company (very local, not a regional or national company), I am running windows 7 and Mac OSX, have a Belkin router (NAT), a LAN and wireless.
On both the windows and mac machines I am seeing these 'unknown' computers on the network. In windows, they appear as 'computers' when I go to Network. I see my personal computers, and then I see up to 3 other computers.
None of which are mine, and none of which have names that I have ever used for a computer that I own.
Here is a screenshot: »avatar12.com/network.jpg - in that example, Blacksmith is the 'unknown' computer.
Another computer that occasionally shows up is "grandmascomputer" - this sort of makes me think I am, for whatever reason, seeing someone else's home network.
My wireless: My wireless network is protected using WPA/WPA2-Personal (PSK).
I have changed the SSID and Passwords and have looked at my router's DHCP table and the only computers listed there are my personal computers.
I am as certain as I can be that these 'unknown' computers are not piggybacking on my wireless. (Also, I have no neighbors - I live in the mountains... and there are no other houses around me)
More info: I am unable to access these computers, I am unable to ping them. I am not using a homegroup. I am not, nor have I ever, run hamachi, or any other vpn or network extending software/service.
Any ideas?
As mentioned. The problem does not occur with my old router. Nor does it happen with a new Linksys E1200
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