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Help! Unknown Devices on Wifi
Please bear with me and my rant, any help and insight are greatly appreciated... As a super un-tech-savvy person, I'm going crazy with all the scary things I'm reading online! (Hackers, spyware, virus...
After doing what XRAY suggests, you can rest assure that the only devices on your network will be yours. I assume you have a unique/secured PW for your Telus router? If you still see more devices connected than what you know are actually connect, you can rest assure that that is "historical" info retained by your router. Routers have "lease periods" for devices that are/were connect. being that your Apple devices have randomization MAC, just adds to the confusion.
The password to my wifi is unique and personalized, yes.
The password to get into the router (admin) @ 192.168.1. etc is still the original one posted on the sticker at the back. It's a bunch of random digits and letters so I figured it was safe enough, correct?
The password to get into the router (admin) @ 192.168.1. etc is still the original one posted on the sticker at the back. It's a bunch of random digits and letters so I figured it was safe enough, correct?
It most likely is safe. The thing is, in order for someone to be on your "WiFi" they'd have to be within close proximity of your router, other than neighbors, who could that be? And even that would be such a bad connection it would be not worth it. I personally change the router's default management PW, just as a good house keeping practice.
- Thank you so much for putting my mind to a bit of ease here.
Sounds like maybe its just a glitch or something...
I just have so many devices it's nuts.- FuzzyLogic
Community Power User
As mentioned this is likely related to Apple turning on private Wi-Fi addresses in IOS 14 (and higher). More info here:
Use private Wi-Fi addresses on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support
