It is not normal for me to see this. I haven't used my laptop to cast anything, nor is there any reason it would be necessary when my laptop is connected to my normal WiFi as broadcast by my AP....

Ok. My laptop is on right now, and I do not see the same 5GHz SSID being broadcast.



Bluetooth operates in the 2.4GHz spectrum and as stated this was a 5GHz SSID. Here is the export from...

There was no VPN connected at the time, although I fail to see how that would account for the broadcast of an SSID.
I have never used mobile hotspot on that laptop in my life. Additionally, in my...

How can you say this? I have a laptop. It has a computer name of "BernardLapTap2". On my smartphone, I used WiFi analyzer Pro which shows WiFi networks. I see my laptops name in an SSID in the 5Ghz...

Why are you telling me about BSSIDs and not reading what I am saying?

The first part of my post...

My laptop (or something appearing as my laptop) is broadcasting something and that is also...

"hypermachine"??? Hyper V? I don't use Hyper-V. Yes, I have wireguard VPN and another VPN client, neither of which were active and neither of which have anything to so with spawning a WiFi AP. What...

I don't think you are understanding my post. There has been an SSID broadcast that contains the name of my Windows laptop, "BernardLapTap2" + some other random characters. I did nothing to invoke...

I do have inSSIDer, but my concern lies with me NOT trying to, or being able to, use this laptop as an access point. When I saw the SSID containing my laptops very unique name, I had done nothing...

I have a Dell XPS 2-in1 equipped with Killer Networks 1435 WiFi NIC. Recently, I opened Network Analyzer Pro app on my Android phone (I had new neighbors, and wanted to see if they were using WiFi on...