@Gelert5 wrote:a) If my single connection only raised one single 'Log Event' (despite that connection duration being about one hour), why are other singular MAC Addresses showing-up as multiple 'Connection Events', recorded every one minute or so?
I honestly wouldn't pay too much attention to the Technical Log. It's pretty bare-bones and is clearly ommitting a lot of information. As far as the number of Wi-Fi events is concerned, different Wi-Fi devices will exhibit different behaviours; some might frequently enter/exit low power states and that could be seen as repeated association/disassociation events, whereas others might only show a single connect/disconnect per 'session'.
b) The Log Events therefore cannot be used to ascertain 'duration of connection' in any way.
Agree, and I wouldn't suggest trying to use them for this purpose.
c) If someone were to connect to my EE Open Network and then carried-out 'nefarious activities', what possible defence could I offer GCHQ et al that 'it wasn't me, guv'...
As @XRaySpeX has mentioned, EE WiFi is completely isolated from the rest of your network and a customer connecting to it will be assigned an IP etc. from within the EE WiFi network, rather than your LAN. I think it would be pretty easy for EE to establish if something was or wasn't you, should they be approached by an authority. Remember, an EE Wi-Fi user also has to authenticate against a valid EE/BT account before they can access the public Internet i.e. they need to explicitly enter their EE/BT username and password before they're granted full access.
Intrigued to know whether or not those log entries subside after the opt-out has taken effect. I wonder if the older hubs (BT Smart Hub 2/EE Smart Hub) also log EE WiFi events 🤔
