Windows keeps finding a security camera on my network

ElFenix

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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.

here's the device that windows finds:
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JackMDS

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If it is Win 10 make sure that the capacity for direct Wireless sync/connection is of.

Setting/Privacy/Radios, and other Devices, are off,

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boomerang

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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?

Yes, you are not alone.
 

VirtualLarry

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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.
 

boomerang

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I'm with Comcast but with both a modem and router that I own. I saw this with 8.1 and it has lessened with 10 but it still happens.

Right now it shows a phone. An x5_spr_us.
 

VirtualLarry

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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.