Who or what is this device connected to my wireless router?

Greenlizard0

Greenlizard0

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As above really.

I have just logged into my wireless router and have clicked into my home network settings. All is ok - I can see the four machines that are paying for the internet connected up nice and spanky. The router itself is also listed there.

However there is one more item present, it's name is "Unknown", the I.P. address is very different to the other four machines and router, and the type is also "Unknown" as well."

Does anybody have any idea what it could be? Is there a way I can find out? There is one lad in the house who has a wireless abled laptop, but he's not paying for it and thus is not allowed on our network.

I have an option to delete and edit all options. When I press edit on the unknown connection the same info as before appears.
 
DO you have security turned on?

If not turn it on and then enter the pass phrase on each of the machines you want to give access to.

If it is already turned on, you can change the pass phrase and then change it on all of the machines you want to allow access to you network

If you have no security then anyone can connect
 
Sorry, should have mentioned I do have a WPA (and WSK or something) key enabled.

It was changed yesterday and distributed to the machines that are allowed on, they've all logged in fine (the four of them) and I can see them.

It's just this one more object that's quite perplexing.
 
I always have an extra one, not sure what it is.

Always thought its the router/network adapter or something :confused:

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Top one.
 
According to Visual Route, it belongs to NTL... Are they your cable provider?

inetnum: 82.16.128.0 - 82.16.143.255
netname: NTL
descr: NTL Infrastructure - Waltham Park
country: GB

If not spoofed, that MAC address prefix relates to vendor Cisco. Does it let you disconnect that connection?
 
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Nanobot said:
According to Visual Route, it belongs to NTL... Are they your cable provider?

inetnum: 82.16.128.0 - 82.16.143.255
netname: NTL
descr: NTL Infrastructure - Waltham Park
country: GB
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Virgin Media. (Was NTL before the change over, so yes)

I'm guessing the OP is a similar story?
 
No, the only people as far as I can tell that have been here are Bulldog and Yahoo Internet years ago.

Using that software you've referred to could you try it for :

94dot192dot226d0t137
 
It's not special software - you can look up the WHOIS data for an IP on a bunch of sites.

It belongs to O2/Be.

As for the two interfaces with wildly different IPs in the screenshot, one's the router's LAN interface (i.e. what connects to the switch ports) and the other one is the WAN interface (that's connected to the cable or ADSL modem).
 
Be support forums to the rescue...

Reggie21 said:
When you check your device list you will find a device listed with a Be* ip address, that is not yours.
eg.
Unknown-00-03-fa-a9-d7-4a
ip address: 87.194.112.1

This is in fact the Be* gateway through which you connect to the internet.

It is through this gateway at the exchange that your bebox connects to the internet. This is quite normal, and nothing to worry about.
Click to expand...
 
Technically, every port has its own address. For a Wireless router you will have a MAC address for the WAN port, one for the WLAN connection, and atleast one for the LAN ports. So although you may thing of it as being 1 device, it will have numerous MAC and IP addresses, and may appear numerous times in client tables.
 
greenlizard, does your router have MAC security? (it's not perfect, but it's another barrier for the 'theif' to get through)

-ie 'only allow these MAC addresses.. (each network card has it's own MAC address)
 
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