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So...I'm inferring that the meaning of "in range" has expanded somewhat. My Fingbox is in fact on a different managed switch from the desktop in question.
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Tinsori isn't "on" ANY access point; it is wired-Ethernet only. Which is what puzzles me.
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The reason you are getting In range alerts is due to your network set up. As your Tinsori device is connected to the Netgear switch which is connected to your router and that router has one more switch connected to it. So in this case, the IP address for the device may get changed or another device may use the same IP address from different access point thus showing your Tinsori device as In-Range. Furthermore, you have all access points named as same. This can create confusion for Fingbox to monitor the IP address range. To solve this, Can you assign a static IP address to your Tinsori device and see if anything changes.
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There should be no IP address collisions...I certainly haven't seen any.
There's also Megelaar, a laptop that *has* a WiFi radio, but that radio is turned off when it's connected to Ethernet. No in-range alerts in the history for Megelaar.
The router has two switches connected to it, and one of them has two more switches downstream.
I had thought "in range" meant a device had been heard on a 2.4 radio in the FingBox.
I'd expect you'd track WiFi devices by MAC. You're doing it by IP?
The only way to make sure the set up is working okay is by assigning a static IP address to your device. Can you try that? Once it is done and then check. In-range sometimes will also show for different frequencies if the device is switching between 2.4Ghz to 5Ghz
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It's a Threadripper 2920X desktop I built from parts.
It's not on any WiFI frequency. Confirmed with a WiFI scanner app.
Is Fingbox trying to track WiFi devices by IP addresss? It shouldn't. Some WiFI devices never join the network. If you're trying to track WiFi devices by IP addresss, that's a design flaw.
No, I'm not going to monkey with my netwrok design to diagnose your box. Manual static IP assignment is for the birds, except in special cases where It might be necessary. You haven't adequately explained why the IP addresss matters here, and I'm unclear that you actually understand the issue.
To address your question, The Fing App discovery will identify devices on a best effort basis, based on the information made available by the device, e.g. the MAC address. There are numerous reasons why the device might not be recognised correctly e.g.
- The DHCP server is not refreshing when speaking to your Fingbox.
- Limited information being offered by specific devices.
From your screenshot, I can understand either the device is going to sleep mode and then after a period of time it is showing Offline or you have changed the state change auto for that device. The reason you may be experiencing this issue in relation to alerts for specific users, is that you might have changed the state change alert from default value to a different value. The usual default value is 20 minutes. Sometimes, when the device is not in use, it may go to sleep mode and then if the state change is set to the lowest value of 1 or 2 minutes, it can be recorded as offline or out of range. So, when it returns back from the sleep mode, it will be marked as 'Online' and thus providing you with an alert. If the state change alert value is set to more than 20 minutes, then until that time period is finished, that device will still be marked 'Online' and only after that time period it will be recorded as 'Offline', thus providing you with an alert.
In order to change the alert settings, please click on the device from the device list and then scroll down to 'State Change Timeout(auto)' . You can then set the value to at least 20 minutes. This will resolve your issue.
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