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Hi Everyone!
Our network connection has been very slow for a few days, so I thought I'd try to figure out why on my own, hoping I'd stumble upon something I understood & could correct. (Yeah, sure!)
When I gave up and called the ISP (Wowway Cable), it was suggested I use an IP scanner application to check for unknown devices using our router.
A few years ago we had a speed problem with the ISP we had at the time (AT&T). They found that our neighbors hacked into our router. (So much for stealth mode) The ISP gave us a new router that was capable of better security. The new one uses WPA WPA2-PSK PERSONAL. Since there are the same people (government-employed computer networking professionals) next door, I wondered if we were slow again due to their attaching to us.
I opened IP Scanner by 10base-t Interactive and saw two items identified as routers. One router shows our ip address of 192.168.0.1 & one is 192.168.0.252. Both are identified as Arris, which is the brand of our router. The one ending in 252 has a mac address quite different than the one we know is our router.
I don't think the neighbors are back in our router, so I wonder what the second ip address is. The ISP didn't know what the mystery address is or what I could do to find out (or why our speed is suddenly slow). But for fifty dollars they will send a technician....
Thinking it be that the second ip address is because our router has both 3G and 5G, I checked "System Preferences-Networking" and looked at the ip addresses for 3G & 5G. The 5G is almost the same as the 3G, shown in IP Scanner, except the last digit is 5 instead of 1. I can't find the mystery ip anywhere in the Networking section of System Preferences.
We don't have any wireless repeaters or cable boxes, so that's out. No smart thermostats or refrigerators or tv's & stuff. Both of our cell phones were off.
Trying to enter the mystery address in the browser's URL bar showed a page that tries to load, but eventually times out.
I logged into our router, but can't find the ip addresses. I looked all over the About This Mac details pages. I found nothing that is a clue, so I'm all about useless at figuring this out on my own.
Do any of you all know what the source of this second ip address could be? And, should I give it a second thought or just ignore it?
Thanks For Helping!
Paul
Our network connection has been very slow for a few days, so I thought I'd try to figure out why on my own, hoping I'd stumble upon something I understood & could correct. (Yeah, sure!)
When I gave up and called the ISP (Wowway Cable), it was suggested I use an IP scanner application to check for unknown devices using our router.
A few years ago we had a speed problem with the ISP we had at the time (AT&T). They found that our neighbors hacked into our router. (So much for stealth mode) The ISP gave us a new router that was capable of better security. The new one uses WPA WPA2-PSK PERSONAL. Since there are the same people (government-employed computer networking professionals) next door, I wondered if we were slow again due to their attaching to us.
I opened IP Scanner by 10base-t Interactive and saw two items identified as routers. One router shows our ip address of 192.168.0.1 & one is 192.168.0.252. Both are identified as Arris, which is the brand of our router. The one ending in 252 has a mac address quite different than the one we know is our router.
I don't think the neighbors are back in our router, so I wonder what the second ip address is. The ISP didn't know what the mystery address is or what I could do to find out (or why our speed is suddenly slow). But for fifty dollars they will send a technician....
Thinking it be that the second ip address is because our router has both 3G and 5G, I checked "System Preferences-Networking" and looked at the ip addresses for 3G & 5G. The 5G is almost the same as the 3G, shown in IP Scanner, except the last digit is 5 instead of 1. I can't find the mystery ip anywhere in the Networking section of System Preferences.
We don't have any wireless repeaters or cable boxes, so that's out. No smart thermostats or refrigerators or tv's & stuff. Both of our cell phones were off.
Trying to enter the mystery address in the browser's URL bar showed a page that tries to load, but eventually times out.
I logged into our router, but can't find the ip addresses. I looked all over the About This Mac details pages. I found nothing that is a clue, so I'm all about useless at figuring this out on my own.
Do any of you all know what the source of this second ip address could be? And, should I give it a second thought or just ignore it?
Thanks For Helping!
Paul