[Android Central Question]

What do i do to find out who is accessing my home network?

[mustang7757]

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[KruseLudsMobile]

What do i do to find out who is accessing my home network?

Why don't you just change the wifi password?

And change the SSID to "FBI Surveillance Van" so nobody will want to connect to it anyway!

[mustang7757]

Why don't you just change the wifi password?

And change the SSID to "FBI Surveillance Van" so nobody will want to connect to it anyway!

Haha.. you responded before I could get back , yes I agree change the password for sure .

[Bodie69]

Ok I registered

[mustang7757]

Ok I registered

Hi, welcome!

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! How do you know someone else is using your wi-fi network without permission? Is your wi-fi network set up with a good password to begin with?

[Bodie69]

I found the name android with a number

[Bodie69]

8979f31 is the number

[mustang7757]

I found the name android with a number

Can you post a screenshot? Block any personal info.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/sh...d.php?t=737130

[Bodie69]

Yes I attached but not sure correct file type

[mustang7757]

Yes I attached but not sure correct file type

Thank you , this looks like a android device on your wifi , do you have other devices connected to it or let a friend or relatives use your wifi ?

[Bodie69]

I deleted it but just curious as to how to find out who this device belongs to

[Bodie69]

I only have family devices attached to home network but none of us have an android

[Bodie69]

I’ve been checking it often and first time to see a strange device

[mustang7757]

I only have family devices attached to home network but none of us have an android

Ok , so change your password and should be ok .

[Bodie69]

Never let anyone use our connection

[mustang7757]

Never let anyone use our connection

.maybe if you have kids or your significant other might of gave the password to connect to your wifi.

[B. Diddy]

The question here is if you have a password set up for your wi-fi network. If you don't, then anyone can use your network.

Also, who's your internet provider? If it's Comcast, then maybe it's showing you who's connecting to your router's public wi-fi hotspot (which shows up as "xfinitywifi"). You can disable it this way: https://forums.androidcentral.com/e?...token=4z-ii_cm

[Galactic Zoo]

Also, because the device appears doesn't mean it is connected to your wifi as it can't without the correct credentials. THis is normal on a wifi network. A neighbour's device shows up on mine but they have no access

[KruseLudsMobile]

8979f31 is the number

Hey, that's my number! I've been looking for that! Are you in Dayton, Kentucky?

[Rukbat]

I deleted it but just curious as to how to find out who this device belongs to

Even assuming that it's someone currently connected to your router, there's no way to find out who owns it. Only the manufacturer would have the serial number (that's what 8979f31 is), possibly the carrier, but neither one would look it up for you. (They can't - their databases aren't set up with serial number as a key - there would be no reason for that. And a non-indexed search through a few million devices, even on a supercomputer, could take a week or more, typing their computer in knots.)