How to Identify Unknown Devices Connected to Your Network?

Every device has a unique address called IP (Internet Protocol) address on your network using which they connect to the internet. Every device on your network can be identified, even unknown IP addresses on routers, using the IP address. 

How to Identify Unknown Devices Connected to Your Network?

Many times, when you sign onto your network and start your work you may find that the YouTube video is stuck on a buffering loop and sometimes the website takes more time to load, which will slow down your work. Now when you try to look into the devices connected to your network you may find an unknown network or device connected to your Wi-Fi network which is consuming the bandwidth leading to a slowdown of your network. So, you must first try to identify these unknown devices to remove them.

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