Hi people, I have a doubt

[SomeoneWonders]

Actually, you can have my location. Just fly from RLG with a heading of about 053. Now intercept the DVV 315 radial and when you do that look for an orange glow of a surface to air missile. Then you'll know your near me. LOL

Talking by abbreviations as if I were supposed to guess what you mean? Good luck!

 

[SomeoneWonders]

:focus:


Getting back on -topic,

IMHO The original screenshot shows not users but Devices, the home routers that most users are provided with by their ISP use a small range of standard Network segments [SubNets] such as 192.168.0.0-255 or 192.168.1.0-255 which are part of the standard Private segments [these are blocked on the wider internet so only identify local devices.

What happens in a local area is several users [at household / small Medium businesses], all end up using the same default segment. this results in all the devices on all of the identical network segment addresses showing on all the routers within communication range of each other.

The simple way to prevent this, [assuming the ISP allows the user access to the Router settings or you use your own], is to change the third segment to a less popular number than the 0 or 1 used by ISPs.

Eg. change the Segment address to 192.168.50.0-255 should remove the phantom devices.

Although the various devices will be visible on both networks that have the same segment addresses the passwords for access should prevent unwanted access to the devices on other networks.

There will be usually be more phantoms visible in a high density area such as a City or close to a small business that in a rural or small town area

Seems useful information. I will have to analyze this in detail. Thanks.

 

[SomeoneWonders]

IMHO The original screenshot shows not users but Devices, the home routers that most users are provided with by their ISP use a small range of standard Network segments [SubNets] such as 192.168.0.0-255 or 192.168.1.0-255 which are part of the standard Private segments [these are blocked on the wider internet so only identify local devices.

That "NITRON-PC" that can be seen is actually showing my username, which is "NITRON".

 

[Barman58]

That is to be expected - when you first setup your user name the PC will generate a device name which is a variation of the username, this will show up in the list of devices on the subnet along with those not in your network - this is normal.

It may also appear in other network lists such as Bluetooth - I run an enhanced Bluetooth system on my desktop, complete with amplified Antenna and when setting up Bluetooth I often see stray devices such as my neighbors' TVs Phones etc

Edit

You can locate your current computer name and local workgroup, and change them - but be careful as it can have unpredictable side effects if other hardware accesses your systems by the existing name.

Do you need help locating your computer name? - Office Support

 

[peterwwilo]

are you saying there have some people join your network, did you share your network to other people? that's quite strange to see someone in your network, whether they are real person or fake.

 

[SomeoneWonders]

are you saying there have some people join your network, did you share your network to other people? that's quite strange to see someone in your network, whether they are real person or fake.

Yeah, I know it's quite strange! That's why I came here to tell about this problem. I don't know whether they are real or fake persons, and that is one of the things I was trying to know too, because no... I didn't share my network with anobody!