getting a lil paranoid , some one explain plz

I got the same thing happening with me but i tought it was my Apple TV. Do you also have an Apple TV? I can connect to it but don't see anything.

Yvon.

 

I've always got a bunch of people's computers that show up in my sidebar, and they are always disappearing and reappearing every few minutes. I checked by router's client table to see if anyone is connected to my router and they're not, but I still keep seeing all these people!

 

Looks like your router is letting AFP / bonjour traffic bleed in from your connection. That's the only way I can think those entries would show up in your sidebar if no one is on your wireless.

 

The government has admitted to keeping tabs on us for five years now.

 

Do you know if there is a specific setting in my router prefs I should look for so I can stop it? Thanks.

 

Sounds like it could be one of two things to me.

1. You're using wireless without encryption, or with WEP (which can be cracked in minutes). Somebody is 'borrowing' your connection. If that's the case, turn on WPA or WPA2 encryption on your router, and connect up with your mac. That should stop it.

2. As another poster said, your router is letting in random bits of traffic from outside your setup. It shouldn't be doing that anyway, so if it has a firewall built in, make sure it's turned on and isn't set to allow any traffic in (unless you're running anything you want to share on the web, like a web server, or you're running bittorrent or anything like that).