MatthewH16
New Around Here
So I'm having a weird issue with my ASUS RT-ac56U running MerlinWRT 378.50, though as a test I just upgraded to 378.51B1. I noticed starting about a month or so ago, unknown devices in my Wireless DHCP Lease log. Now Ive had this router in the same location, with the same setup (except for MerlinWRT upgrades, and the changes noted below) for almost 6 months now and never had this issue up until about a month or so ago.
Every day or so, I see a different unknown device under my DHCP Lease log (My devices are all static from 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.6x) with DHCP Dynamic leases starting at .100 and going through .254, which makes these unknown devices easy to pick out. I live with my GF but I know every device we both own, and every device is assigned a static IP, and I connected every one of them (she can never remember the wireless key) so I know these are not our devices.
I have a custom network name for both of my networks, and my security is using WPA2 with a ~20 character password consisting of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols, so I don't think it'd be practical for anyone to be hacking my password, especially since I've seen 4 different devices so far. I also have WPS and the Guest networks turned off.
I've tried changing my network name, and password multiple times, and even tried resetting the router to defaults and setting everything up from scratch. I've resorted to blocking them by mac-address when I see them both inside the wireless mac filter, and via DNSMasq but I really want to know whats going on here.
Any ideas whats going on? It's odd because while I see them under the DHCP Leases log, I never see these devices under the Wireless Log list, so it's almost as if these devices try to connect, get an IP address and then never stay connected.
Are these people actually connecting and getting access to my network, or is something else going on?
Thanks for any help, I'd love to get this resolved ASAP as I am a super security conscious person.
Every day or so, I see a different unknown device under my DHCP Lease log (My devices are all static from 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.6x) with DHCP Dynamic leases starting at .100 and going through .254, which makes these unknown devices easy to pick out. I live with my GF but I know every device we both own, and every device is assigned a static IP, and I connected every one of them (she can never remember the wireless key) so I know these are not our devices.
I have a custom network name for both of my networks, and my security is using WPA2 with a ~20 character password consisting of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols, so I don't think it'd be practical for anyone to be hacking my password, especially since I've seen 4 different devices so far. I also have WPS and the Guest networks turned off.
I've tried changing my network name, and password multiple times, and even tried resetting the router to defaults and setting everything up from scratch. I've resorted to blocking them by mac-address when I see them both inside the wireless mac filter, and via DNSMasq but I really want to know whats going on here.
Any ideas whats going on? It's odd because while I see them under the DHCP Leases log, I never see these devices under the Wireless Log list, so it's almost as if these devices try to connect, get an IP address and then never stay connected.
Are these people actually connecting and getting access to my network, or is something else going on?
Thanks for any help, I'd love to get this resolved ASAP as I am a super security conscious person.
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