What is this device connected to my router?

Hardware and technical stuff
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The link is BROKEN!
I want my coffee!

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/de-lurk

Well… it just helped me right now, so it wasn’t entirely a waste of time.

/re-lurk

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I think Mitsumi made the CD ROM in a 486 computer I owned years ago.

Also, the hostname of one of the devices connected to my router is *. No text, just a asterisk. What is it?

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It’s bravia Tv or any sony products.
Sony uses wifi chips from Mistumi Eletric Company.

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Okay I figured out this week the asterisk is my Kindle.

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If you assholes don’t like this old thread being bumped then Mitsumi

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I know I am late to the game. Found this thread while trying to answer the $10,000,000 question. I am glad to report, my mystery Mistumi Electric Company device was my android smart watch. Turned off wifi, it went away, turned it on and its back. If you have a smart watch, see if it is connected to your wifi.

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@tomchick needs to monetize somehow all these old help threads. Obviously they are still of use.

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Hey let’s not give crap to the people who overcome apathy on the internet to actually register and post real information.

Edit: I think I read the above comment incorrectly and attributed a lot of snark that wasn’t there somehow, sorry.

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Holy shit @dgallina, 3,500 people clicked your link. That’s gotta be some kind of record here.
EDIT: And 95,000 thread views. Apparently this is a common question, and people are dropping in from all over. So @YakAttack has a point. Apparently these old threads are still of use.

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I’ve noticed a few threads like this. I can’t recall one off the top of my head however.

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GBA roms and iTunes conversion one before it was locked

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Who would have figured? About the least important contribution I might have made :-)

Diego

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Reviewing the devices connected to my router I came across - “MitsumiE Device” Come to find out it belongs to my Sony Network Media Player (streaming box). Purchased back in July 2012. I can still get Vudu and Weather Nation on it!

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My god this was a good read, thank you evryone xD
Ps. Literally created an account for this

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The 6 year old link that keeps on giving. FFS it might outlive me one day :-)

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Is this actually a useful old thread and not a honeypot for spam like the MP4/iTunes/GBA threads?

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I guess it is if you need to identify a network device by MAC address and didn’t know that there’s a maintained list of prefix owners :-)

But to be fair many consumer routers will now (with varying degrees of success) automatically list the client’s device manufacturer based on the same info.

Diego

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The Shenzen Device is your Robot Vacuum, more specifically, mine is a Shark IQ. I hope this helps!

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Oh, shit. Even vacuums are connected to the Internet now?