problem is, i don't have a security camera, and my router doesn't show a connection using the MAC address of the device that windows is finding on my network.
Cameras, phones, computers, you name it, they all show up from time to time and seem to appear and disappear at will. I am on over two acres with no wireless networks available other than my own.
Right now I have a RalinkLinuxClient. An hour from now, who knows?
What ISPs do both of you have? Maybe the ISP router is leaking MACs via some sort of incorrect proxy-ARP.
Or do you both have Comcast, with ISP-supplied "Gateway" (modem/router/wifi) devices? In which case, I would suggest that maybe it's Comcast's wifi hotspot at work.
Do you have Windows 7 machines on the LAN, with IPv6 enabled? I'm wondering if this is an artifact of Win7's implementation of IPv6, where it picks random MACs for the link-local / LAN IPv6 addresses, or something along those lines that I've read.
Otherwise, I'm puzzled that random devices show up on a LAN like that.
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