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number of devices attached
03-03-2022 9:50 AM
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Hi. I opened the page showing my Home Network, and there's a list of the attached devices to the 2.4, 5Ghz and ethernet networks. Most of these i can recognise as being computers, phones etc around my home. But a number of them have obscure names like Unknown-e2-cf-06...
I know i could identify these by changing my Wifi password, and see what stops working, but is there a simpler way of finding out what these mystery devices are?
thanks
Paul
Re: number of devices attached
03-03-2022 10:06 AM
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Hi Paul,
Copy the MAC address segment of the unknown_ string and format it with colons as separators, e.g:-
e2:cf:06...
Paste that MAC address into the site here and it will often tell you the vendor of the network interface. It isn't always obvious, and sometimes you won't get a result, but it may provide some clues.
Bob Pullen
Plusnet Product Team
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