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by irfan 3326 days ago
Is there a better way to check if an OUI is being used by a mobile phone or a router? e.g. There are plenty of huawei/apple routers and if one of them is in your neighborhood, you'd always get incorrect count. Similarly, there are many infamous smart phones and people use them but your code seems to ignore them.
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Basically the OUI's I selected are from the ones with the top market share in the United States [1]. The marketshare is totally different in countries like India or Vietnam, so if people use this there they should be aware of this (maybe submit a PR to improve it :) ).

I'm open to suggestions to distinguish routers from mobile phones! Perhaps something like monitoring how "static" a mac address is (i.e. routers should never move and would be much less dynamic than signals from phones).

[1] https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings/comScore-Reports-...