On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 02:14:05PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote: > We just bought a new desk top PC for my wife, running Win-7. > She normally has lots of USB stuff attached but I started by only > connecting a monitor, keyboard and mouse (wireless). Booted up fine and I > left > it to my wife to set name, password and such. Then she told me it was > downloading tons of updates from MSN. But how?? I hadn't connected > the LAN. So it was connected by wi-fi. For a while I was afraid it had > connected to an open AP that shows up here sometimes. But no, > it was connected to our AP. But we never entered the pass phrase. > We checked at the router to verify. Its set up for WPA2 and WPS is > disabled. Also there a lot more devices connected than I could imagine. > Some I recognize like our androids (and entered pass phrase on) > but there are others that I don't know what they are. > > How is it possible to connect without the pass phrase??
I'm far from an expert on this, but perhaps your AP allows 'guest' access? I vaaaaguely recall seeing some option for that on my AP. Quick google search for the term "wireless AP guess access" comes up with, e.g. http://www.howtogeek.com/153827/how-to-enable-a-guest-access-point-on-your-wireless-network/ Just a thought... -- -bill! Sent from my computer _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech