unknown devices constantly popping up.

[TheRevo]

Hello Everyone.
So, recently i have had extreme internet issues... by extreme i mean that the down speed from my ISP to my house was 76Mbps but from my router to my devices it could be as low as 0.5Mbps and never above 8Mbps...

for the longest time i just accepted it, rang the isp once in a while to try and resolve the issue untill earlier when i was going through the connections that my Network is recieving. I noticed alot of devices with listings like this : Unknown-70-AE-E1-CS-D7-3A... I just though they were various connection around my house like laptops, and phones etc. I deleted all of the connections from my network apart from my phone and my main desktop pc (both wireless connections) and in less thank 5 minutes a dozen of these unknown connections had appeared again.. does anybody know what these are? and could they be the cause of my internet troubles?

To All of you that are going to tell me to use a wired connection. it is not an option. My pc has always used a wireless connection and up until a few months ago (with no change to the wireless equipment or distance) it had ran fine at around 70Mbps.

I Did this at 3:30am, so the devices can't be other peoples devices in my house as they are all sleeping right now... plus they were all named devices on the network

thanks for the help

 

[smorizio]

is your wifi open or is it passworded. if it has a password then someone may have cracked it. i would change the andim name and password and your wep/wpa key also change the router channel that your using. someone may have put a repeater on your network and your seeing info from another house. also update the router firmware if it out of date. also check if your unit has a guest network. if it does turn it off.

 

[MarkW]

Set passwords and encryption levels wireless router. Right now, you are the internet provider for a whole bunch of your neighbors.

When other people tell their computers to automatically connect to a certain wireless point, those computers will continuously try to reconnect when disconnected. When there is a level of encryption and a password, those same devices cannot connect.

Also, in your router, there is a way to only allow devices with certain MAC ID numbers to connect, and to reject all other devices. So you would need to get the MAC ID of your computer, and your phone, plug those into the router, and then activate that feature.

How to do this will be in the routers user manual.

 

[TheRevo]

is your wifi open or is it passworded. if it has a password then someone may have cracked it. i would change the andim name and password and your wep/wpa key also change the router channel that your using. someone may have put a repeater on your network and your seeing info from another house. also update the router firmware if it out of date. also check if your unit has a guest network. if it does turn it off.

yeah, it has WPA & WPA2 Security. I've been changing between Channel 1,6 and 11 for the last few months, it kinda fixes it for a few minutes but it will only go up to around 28Mbps and then plumit again.. also, my ping when im playing games is awful, before i had these problems d hover around 7 -14 ping but now its always above 40- and can be as bad as 400+.. as for the suggestions. ill put them to work right now thanks for the help

 

[bill001g]

Make sure you disable the WPS support. This is easily cracked and one someone gets this number the router will just give them you WPA2 password no matter how good you do it. You can not even change the WPS number so once someone has it they can continue to use it. The only safe option with WPS it to disable and not use this feature......unfortunately it is on by default on many router to help the people too lazy to key in password.