Windows 10: ? mysterious cell phone in device manager ?

Hi, I'm a retired programmer but I'm a little behind on all this wireless stuff. My suburb is way out in the mountains and only about half the people own cell phones because reception is so awful. I don't own one myself.

Anyway I was in Device Manager today and saw a mysterious cell phone. I forgot exactly what heading it was under but the model was a LG-VS450pp and it had a MAC address. I have an Asus RT-N66U router and the firmware is up to date. In a few minutes the cell phone disappeared.

Is this anything to be alarmed about? Or is it routine? I'm about 60 feet from a public road. Possibly a neighbor has this phone and my router detected it?

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My HP EliteBook running Windows 7 sees my Nokia cell phones, that have WWAN in then, via Bluetooth in Device Manager as Modems and as Portable Devices since they have SD memory chips in them. In Windows 10 the cell phones do not appear in the Portable
Devices node of the Device Manager, the cell phones only appear in the Modems node. WHY?

 

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In Device Manager where will I find the cell phone?

 

I have more neighbours and they are way too close to me so I used to get phones, printers, nas devices, etc.

What I did was go into my router and disable WPS ( WiFi Protected Setup ) which Win10 will pick up as networked devices although not part of your lan. I don't use WPS so disabling it was not an issue for me.

They talk about other methods here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...fae84cd?page=3

 

I Don't think it's anything to be alarmed about. Just make a note of the mac address and if the phone continues to appear consider Blocking it, at least, from connecting to your router by putting it on the "Banned MAC Addresses" list?

 

In the Device Manager Network Adapters/Wireless LAN, Right click Wireless LAN. Click Properties. Under "Advanced" tab, Disable Radio on/off (and everything else EXCEPT country/region]. Reboot. That should take care of it.

 

Wouldn't that completely remove his ability to use wifi?

 

Nothing to be alarmed about, as many phones move they are looking for so called 'hot spots' and make themselves known to any wireless router within range. So long as you have set a strong encryption key you should be okay.
However there are some companies that set their routers up (B.T. for example in the U.K.) so that that anyone with a suitable user name/password can use bits of bandwidth from that router though it's easily stopped by either using your own router or opting out the system, if allowed. If this is the case don't be worried about what they download your ISP knows it was downloaded by someone connected to your router via this service, though the thought of some things they could download via your router is disturbing.

this may give you a clue as how it works.
Get wireless Internet | Find wi-fi hotspots | BT Wi-fi

 

I would change the password for your WiFi, If you need some guidance I think this is the PDF manual for your router from Asus web site. http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wir..._B1_Manual.zip

When choosing an encryption method choose WPA2-PSK (AES) It's the fastest

• Open (risky): Open Wi-Fi networks have no passphrase. You shouldn’t set up an open Wi-Fi network — seriously, you could have your door busted down by police.
• WEP 64 (risky): The old WEP encryption standard is vulnerable and shouldn’t be used. Its name, which stands for “Wired Equivalent Privacy,” now seems like a joke.
• WEP 128 (risky): WEP with a larger encryption key size isn’t really any better.
• WPA-PSK (TKIP): This is basically the standard WPA, or WPA1, encryption. It’s been superseded and isn’t secure.
• WPA-PSK (AES): This chooses the older WPA wireless protocol with the more modern AES encryption. Devices that support AES will almost always support WPA2, while devices that require WPA1 will almost never support AES encryption. This option makes very little sense.
• WPA2-PSK (TKIP): This uses the modern WPA2 standard with older TKIP encryption. This isn’t secure, and is only a good idea if you have older devices that can’t connect to a WPA2-PSK (AES) network.
• WPA2-PSK (AES): This is the most secure option. It uses WPA2, the latest Wi-Fi encryption standard, and the latest AES encryption protocol. You should be using this option. On devices with less confusing interfaces, the option marked “WPA2” or “WPA2-PSK” will probably just use AES, as that’s a common-sense choice.
• WPAWPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES): Some routers recommend this free-for-all option. This enables both WPA and WPA2 with both TKIP and AES. This provides maximum compatibility with any ancient devices you might have, but also ensures an attacker can breach your network by cracking the lowest-common-denominator encryption scheme. This TKIP+AES option may also be called WPA2-PSK “mixed” mode.

 

Do you think I could respond to this forum if my wi fi wasn' t in use.. The radio picks up any equipment within reach that is seeking a network.. By disabling, the only network that you will see iis your own

 

Yeah, its called ethernet...or built in cellular? Which would make sense considering the OPs situation

 

A lot of USB & Blue Tooth devices are mislabeled as Cellphone devices by Windows. If it was on the network, it would never show up in Device Manger. Personally I would not even worry about it. Most likely it is something that was hooked up to your computer via USB or Bluetooth and you have not used it since.

 

It is called a anomaly. The chipset in some device was labeled by Windows as something different. I see it all of the time if our phones are syncing with the Blue Tooth adapters on our CPAP's.

 

This works for 7, so it should work for 10. Tweak Device Manager for a more Complete View of Devices
That model number is also used by some android devices, such as cheap tablets, since it is the same chipset that the Verizon LG-vS450 Prepaid phone uses.