Mysterious device detected by ISP on the end of my line

Enda_of_Eire

Hey everyone,

My internet has been acting up in the evenings, so I called my ISP's technician, and he looked at my line from his computer.

He said the end device being detected was "Tabor Electronics", while it should be a Netgear router (as this is what I use).

We both had a look at the site while on the phone, and we had no idea why a device made by such a company would be detected, but it is the device at the end of the line according to their systems.

Here is their website, seems they make signal generators/ measurement equipment etc:

http://www.taborelec.com/products_all.asp?over=products

Now I can only think of three reasons:

1. Our attic can be accessed by our neighbours (it's wide open up their, one huge attic between the row of 5 or 6 of us - we live in town). We heard someone walk in our attic months ago a few times, which creeped us out. Could someone have cut the wire, and placed a box between for free to get free internet or monitor mine? The attic is very high and I can't reach it myself to check, but could organize a ladder. We got a new neighbour who seems a bit odd, around the time someone was walking on our attic.

2. Tabor electronics made the PCI card for my new dell (XPS).
I can't see anything on google to support this however.

3. The engineers system is wrong.

Any opinions welcome!

bonzodog2

An interesting one.

First, who's your ISP (who provides your internet)
If you're using Windows, open W Explorer, navigate to
My Network Places-->Entire Network-->Microsoft Windows Network-->Workgroup
and tell us what you see. Your PC should be there, maybe others.

Are you the only one supposed to be using your net connection ?

Also, open a command-prompt window (Start-->Run-->cmd-->ENTER)
type
ipconfig /all
look for an entry "Default Gateway", might be like 192.168.x.x
put that number into the address bar of your browser, you may need to try and guess some passwords, this should bring you to web interface of local router, it probably has a section, maybe under "LAN" for show connected devices

Have you had same wifi password since before new neighbour and noises in attic ?

Voodu Child

More than likely they manufacture some of the products used by your own ISP for line testing and that's where the engineer is getting the vendor MAC address.

Overheal

All the same worth checking the attic.

Cuddlesworth

What type of broadband? DSL, cable etc.

Skerries

hide your router, hide your porn

vibe666

Overheal wrote: »

All the same worth checking the attic.

just not at night. and not alone!!! :eek:

Cabaal

I'm guessing that this may be a cable connection as I've honestly never seen any ADSL line tests being able to actually identify the make of equipment connected to the line (unless its equipment owned by the ISP at the exchange).

There's no way any line test could identify the name of equipment in your premises on ADSL. On cable its different as he can pickup MAC addresses etc.

tfitzgerald

First thing I would do is get a ladder and go up there and check things out the second would be to buy a lock and put it on the attic door