I’ll start this by stating I will try to provide as much relative information as possible. I have an interesting situation with my home network in which my old old wifi SSID is still showing up on found wifi signals. Not only is it still showing up, but using a wifi analyzer its also showing to use a massive amount of bandwidth on channels 1-5ish on the 2.5ghz Band.
A little backstory.
I purchased an asus wireless AC router back in 2014/2015ish in my old apt, and named its SSID. For the sake of discretion I will call its ssid as Asus01. Now I have since moved twice, switched from Spectrum to Fios (who by the way have gotten shittier over the year) and been utilizing their shitty ac router so my roommate can utilize the cable package. For the longest time my asus router was unplugged, never connected to the new home network and tucked in a box, until I let a friend borrow it. Even though it was disconnected and unused for about a year and 1 additional move, its SSID is still broadcasting. My initial thought that maybe it was being cached on another device that used it, such as my or my friends PCs, our cell phones, the ps3, smart tv, ect. Slowly I been eliminating each of those as a culprit. Since our most recent move (router still not hooked up or powered on) I have fully upgraded and replaced all parts of my pc save for my psu, my roommate and I both got new phones, the ps3 was disconnected and boxed, and until a week ago my roommate had his pc in storage unused.
I am really wracking my brain as to why my old router ssid is still showing up on a network scan, and where it can be coming from.
If anyone with more networking knowledge than myself has any ideas I would really appreciate any insight.
Yeah, try and physically locate where it is coming from. There are apps that let you map out wifi coverage in your home, this may help. Or you can have a wifi monitor open and power off devices until it disappears.
Once you find what device is pumping out the wifi, smash it to pieces. Or investigate further. Be interesting to know what it is or why it is doing that.
maybe it is caused by your printer config, or printerserver if you installed that on your router.
it happened to me after i moved once the old config for the pinterserver kept popping up until i wiped it of the router with a reset to factory settings
WiFi analyzer should tell you the Mac of the SSID. That Mac should be 1 or 2 numbers off of the lan Mac of the device. Do a network scan and find what device has the almost identical Mac address.
