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Old 4th February 2014 | 09:08
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mixture
 
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Could this indicate that someone else is using the network, even though it's WPA/WPA2-PSK encrypted ?
Well, if you've chosen a stupidly easy WPA2 password then that could be.

However the more likely answer is DHCP.

The router runs a little server process which dishes out IP addresses automatically to devices that request it.

Most DHCP servers will lease the IP to a MAC address for a given lifetime, however it sounds like the DHCP lease time is set very short on your router and hence is why new IPs are being dished out.
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