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I’m staying with my Dad who has dementia while his wife is out of town. She calls and will bring up things we have just discussed here. Is there any way she could be listening to us? I’m not paranoid, this would be something she would do. I have looked at what is accessing the wifi, and other than my iphone, there’s 3 generic devices and 1 apple air port. How can I find out if we are being monitored?
iPhone 11, iOS 17
Depending on the router you have, the devices can be removed or blocked, but determining what they are can be difficult because all you will usually see is the MAC address of the device. Some other things that may be connected to your WiFi are:
You can also change the password for the Wifi network and connect the devices that you know. It will be easy to tell what the other devices were, since they will no longer work until you connect them with the correct password.
Most routers have a sort of web site in the firmware, and you can get to it by typing the address into the address bar of a browser.
The most common addresses are 192.168.0.1, or 192.168.1.1, or (as in my case) 192.168.2.1
You should at least be able to inspect a list of devices (some possibly "inactive"), whether or not you can tell what they are by the name. Some are simply other numbers similar to the router's. Could be computers, digital cable TV set-top box, thermostat, phones, iPods, printers, scanners, various smart appliances, etc. It includes devices connected by Ethernet.
If you have the admin user name (usually "admin" by default) and the password - possibly taped to the router somewhere, you can disconnect the connected devices. The admin password is separate from the wi-fi access password. But don't go nuts. Some of them may be critical.
How to know what other devices are accessing the wifi.
