All,
Toady when I arrived home my wife had purchased a headset for her cell phone and was attempting to connect to the phone. It was quite comical at first, but then I became annoyed. Not at her but at my ignorance on something that is bothering me now.
While trying to connect using Bluetooth in her phone, my name was showing up in her phone as the only available device. My full name! So after some discussion we decided it had to be my computer showing up; however, they said it was showing up before I arrived home. I turned my computer on when I arrived home, so in my mind with it off it was not my computer causing this.
Time after time we tried to get her device to show up with frustrating results, and we could not stop my name from showing up either. So she decided to return to where it was purchased and ask for help. In one second he had removed my name and her device was then available, and he informed them it was absolutely my computer causing the problem.
So, if you have a computer with Bluetooth, your name is/maybe being transmitted from it, apparently even when it is off. If anyone is nearby and checking for devices they can get your name. Obviously, that may not be true for everyone since maybe there is a way to block that from occurring that I don’t know about.
So my question is, what can be done to stop this? Boyd? Ben? I know I could change my name in my computer since Apple computers actually have a name in them. The phone has a stealth mode feature to keep it’s name from being captured by other, but I have not played with that yet.
Guy
Toady when I arrived home my wife had purchased a headset for her cell phone and was attempting to connect to the phone. It was quite comical at first, but then I became annoyed. Not at her but at my ignorance on something that is bothering me now.
While trying to connect using Bluetooth in her phone, my name was showing up in her phone as the only available device. My full name! So after some discussion we decided it had to be my computer showing up; however, they said it was showing up before I arrived home. I turned my computer on when I arrived home, so in my mind with it off it was not my computer causing this.
Time after time we tried to get her device to show up with frustrating results, and we could not stop my name from showing up either. So she decided to return to where it was purchased and ask for help. In one second he had removed my name and her device was then available, and he informed them it was absolutely my computer causing the problem.
So, if you have a computer with Bluetooth, your name is/maybe being transmitted from it, apparently even when it is off. If anyone is nearby and checking for devices they can get your name. Obviously, that may not be true for everyone since maybe there is a way to block that from occurring that I don’t know about.
So my question is, what can be done to stop this? Boyd? Ben? I know I could change my name in my computer since Apple computers actually have a name in them. The phone has a stealth mode feature to keep it’s name from being captured by other, but I have not played with that yet.
Guy