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Neighbours using my Weirless

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Hockey_MLnut

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Aug 2, 2004
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I have new neighbours and I also have Wireless Internet. the past couple days I have been noticing that my connection has been slower and I have been booted off the net a few times. My computer says that another user is on my network.

I was just wondering if they could possibly be using my wireless Internet or is the problem with my net or computer???

I only bring it up now because it has only been happening since they moved in next door.


Thanks
 
Put a proper secuirity protocol on your Wifi, WAP or whatever it is called.
 
There must be an option for you to use password protection.
 
MICRO-TREND PC-cillin.

You can control your wifi from that and protect your PC
 
I wonder if it is possible to send your neighbour intruder a "Hello" message on the network? That would be funny.
 
First, and I mean FIRST !!! ...thing to do, is to put a password on the router admin page !!.

It makes no difference how much wireless security you enable, if anyone can just go to http://192.168.1.1 (linksys) and login as admin with no password, and change your settings.

Once that is done you can start turning on the various wireless security features.
1) password protect wireless access, and encrypt traffic between your notebook and router. WAP is better than WEP, WAP2 is better than WAP. You will need to check your notebooks wireless card properties to see what it supports.
2) Turn on the MAC address filter, and enter your notebook's MAC address, so only it can connect and no others.
3) Setup your notebook wireless network connection to use the WAP key you created in step 1. Be sure to check that it reconnects after a reboot.
4) Turn off SID broadcast. This is what tells other wireless computers within range that there is a wireless network available. You no longer need this once you get the notebook running in step 3. Leave wireless radio ON.
 
First of all, how do you know the neighbours are using your wireless? Unless you are running some sort of network analysis tool (What's Up for example) how do you know that they are connected?

Whether they are connected or not, you should immediatey do what has already been mentioned here to secure this. 1. Change the router/WAP admin password. 2. At least enable WEP. 3. Look at the MAC Address filter.

Regarding the "Sending a "Hello" message.... please enlighten me as to how you would do this? These things are not connected to a common server to broadcast a message.
 
Read your manual for your router, or re-read the install cd about setting up a password to make your router secured. that way you have a long 10 to 16 digita password to log on to use your router.
 
There are sniffer programs that can get around the WEP encryption but most don't know about those things so if you implement the above suggestions youll be fine.
 
Hockey_MLnut said:
Just finished putting a password on thanks everyone.
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damn i just lost my free internet connection!!! :D

neighbors should all get together and share their cable and tv, then split the bills. that's one way to get even with rogers!!!
 
Having fun by messing around with wireless poachers

Meister said:
I wonder if it is possible to send your neighbour intruder a "Hello" message on the network? That would be funny.
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Not sure if I saw this posted here before, but there are ways to mess around with wireless freeloaders including sending them to the wrong web sites, taking the web site http images and turning them backwards or upside down, blurring the screens, etc.

For instance, when the wireless poacher goes to www.ebay.com, all the http graphics shows up backwards on thier PC!

http://www.ex-parrot.com/peter/upside-down-ternet.html
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/print.php/3653006

"...Messing with images on Web sites is more subtle, more evil, and more fun. Mr. Stevens shows how to use the mogrify command (which is part of ImageMagick) with the -flip and -blur options to distort the Web sites visited by your poachers. -blur is especially fiendish, because they'll think it's a problem with their eyes, their video cards, their monitors- anything but the real cause..."
 
The IT guy at work tells me if you want to have fun with an unprotected wireless router that your neighbour has, go in and set your own password.

:D
 
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