I've had Fios for a while and just now getting around to really configuring my router for better security. Step one in this process is simply understanding which devices are in my "My Network" area of the router. I had all kinds of stuff in there, including duplicates of the one PC that was hardwired to the router, so ended up just doing a factory restore. This helped and I've been able to find all the devices except 1 that is listed. The one device that's listed is a wireless connection, and for some reason it's reading as connected. The reason this is odd is that when I reset to factory settings I also changed the SSID, which made it so that all the wireless devices on my network had to be reconfigured to look for that new SSID and input the appropriate key for it. In addition, this device is reading as Static for the IP Address allocation, whereas everything else is reading as DHCP. Is this some kind of part of the Fios Router itself?
The other odd thing I'm dealing with is that for the above-mentioned wireless device as well as one other PC - the one that is hardwired to the router - it will not give me the option to rename the device. All other devices I can rename, but not these two.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to know the answers to this. I have many more configuration changes to make, but I want to start with a good understanding of what these devices are before I proceed...
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