Help with finding unknown logged devices in jio fiber centram dashboard

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In our installation the Johnnie's who came used their phone to access our home networks, he would use either the customers name or ask you to type ssid onto his phone same with password. It was a painfully slow way of doing because of frequent disconnections. In my case I insisted on using my pc for creating my SSID & password both which I typed. But both my neighbors & I had this intruder problem. The solution came from the installers boss. I suspect they had some s/w on phone or their local server which could latch on to our networks
 
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It will happen if you have Samsung phones & tabs.
Go to WiFi settings> saved WiFi name >edit> advanced - set to PHONE MAC (by default Samsung uses random MAC).

Repeat the same for every Samsung phone, tab, tv you have. Delete the unknown MACs from router & then tell me if there are unknown MACs.

So everytime your phones reconnect with a new random MAC address, router will consider it as a new device.

Samsung does this by default as your factory MAC address may give away phone manufacturer name & hackers on public WiFi can then initiate specific attacks that your phone is vulnerable to.
 
Prioritize right now to change your Routers Admin password, if your wifi security settings in on TKIP/AES, change TO WPA2 AES ONLY and disable WPS. Change your wifi Password to something a bit more difficult and write it down for until you remember. Lookup the Mac ids for the device if it comes random hardware, I guess you can't do much.
You can also enable access control, where only device mac id you want can access the internet.
 
Samsung & also Windows 11 use random MACs by default. Every-time it reconnects, it will use a random MAC to connect to router & router will consider it as a new device. Hence the unknown devices will keep up appearing on your router no matter how many times you change password - because its your device only! Lol

I told this to my 2 friends using Jio, now they are not getting unknown MACs [Just follow the steps I told above to make sure your phones use factory mac to conn to your home router - repeat for ALL devices in home]... Also use common sense, how many hackers do you have in your neighbourhood? Even if 1 hacker is for some reason connecting 3 of his devices to your router, you should have 3 unknown devices. My friends had wayyy more.

Also the unknown MACs you are getting, check their vendors ( MAC Address Lookup & Mac address lookup | Find mac address vendor | Mac Vendors ).
Randomly generated MACs will usually not have a Vendor name/range.
 
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