Why my PC’s Local Area Connection Shows TP-Link Router’s Wireless Network Name？

Note: This article is not relevant to you if your PC is connected 5GHz wireless of TP-Link routers at the first time.

There is one more thing you need to know before you read this article：

The wired Mac address and 2.4GHz wireless Mac address of TP-Link routers are the same, but the wired Mac address and 5GHz wireless Mac address of TP-link routers are different.

In some special cases you will find that your PC’s Local Area Connection/Ethernet shows TP-link router’s wireless network name, such as below

You may wonder whether this will affect normal functions of your PC and why the wired network connection shows wireless network name of TP-Link router.

Will this matter affect normal functions of your PC?

First, we want to claim that it won’t affect the internet connection or other functions of your PC, and if you don’t like the name, you can change it to whatever you like.

Here are the steps (here take windows 7 as an example):

1. Go to Start—Control Panel—Network and Internet—Network and Sharing Center, left click on Network Picture.

1. Change the Network Name to whatever you like.

Why does the wired network connection show wireless network name?

When a PC first connect to a new network, Windows will ask you to choose a Network Type, such as Public Network, Work Network and Home Network. Then it will create a Network Name for this Network.

When the PC first connects to a 2.4GHz wireless network, it will use the SSID( wireless network name) of the 2.4GHz wireless network as its Network Name.

Then the PC connects to wired network of the same router, the PC recognizes the wired Mac address and wireless 2.4GHz’s Mac address are same, then the PC will consider it is connected to the same network as before. So it will use the 2.4GHz wireless network name it saved before as its Local Area Connection’s Network Name.

There is a second case:

When a PC connects to wired network of a router at first, it will use Network as its Local Area Connection‘s network name automatically, no matter what wireless network name the router has.

If Network has been used before by a different router, then it shows Network 2.