Stopping Windows 10 seeing other peoples devices.

Efour

Efour

Efour

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Or visa versa...

My windows 10 network is picking up

a Philips TV
a Sony Phone
an Asus Phone

Among other things....

Its annoying the crap out of me.
what do i have to do to stop this ?

How can i block MAC addresses ??

Is it as basic as turning off network discovery ? kinda bad kill joy
 
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Connect anything that isn't your PC to the guest network on your router.

This is generally a good idea anyway. If one of those devices gets owned then your PC isn't exposed.
 
There is a bug in Windows networking BTW where it will randomly pickup a phone device which doesn't actually exist.
 
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