Am I being followed?

IBMJunkman

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I have a TrendNet TEW-690AP Access Point. It is hardwired to my router. I have the WiFi channel set to 1. On my cell phone WiFi Analyzer app it shows fine. But there is another WiFi signal on the same channel. It is named DIRECT-8C895790. It is about 20 dBm down from my signal. Based on the name I thought it was someone’s DirectTV device in the neighborhood. If I change my channel to 11 in a second or 2 the DIRECT signal changes to 11. It basically follows my signal.

I have gone through all the screens on the AP but cannot find any reference to the DIRECT name or the MAC address associated with it.

What is going on?
 

bfun_x1

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Off the wall guess here but is the AP in repeater mode using Wi-Fi Direct?
 

IBMJunkman

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Hey, give my 70 year old brain a break. :) I have seen WiFi SSIDs in my travels but they have the printer brand in them. If my Epson printer ID was EPSON-8C895790 I would have put 2 and 2 together.

Question answered.

And I appreciate the Google work.
 

JackMDS

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Seeing a device on Wireless client does not mean that its connects.

The whole idea of is to see all devices so One can make a decision what to connect to.

I.e., closing One eyes does make the actual world around us to disappear.


:cool:
 

pcm81

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It is possible that other routers are set to auto-select the channel. By switching the channel on your router you bump a data hog off the new channel, he joins your old channel, because it is now least congested, and the "stalker device" basically follows you to the new channel, because it is now least conjested, because data hog dropped it.