OT-internet signal question

Anonymous-0 · Jun 9, 2011

If you have a wireless router to use a lap top
can someone steal and use your signal if there close enough,like a neighbor? Is there some way you can tell?

Wayn_h · Jun 9, 2011

yes, especially if you do not have "encryption" turned on, such as WEP or WAP. On my Linksys you can log into the router (you need the username and password), go to the "status" section, click local network and then click DHCP table and look aat the users.

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David G · Jun 9, 2011

Wayne is absolutely correct, it had a radius of a couple hundred feet. I used to roam apartment complexes to get a connection when I was traveling before hotels and restaurants got wifi. You would be surprised how many were open.

JerryS · Jun 9, 2011

Yahoo has a story up right now that reports a survey saying that one-third of Americans admit to hijacking their neighbors' internet.

MarkB_MI · Jun 10, 2011

If your router is unsecure, meaning no encryption is turned on OR the password hasn't been changed, others can and will steal your connection, and they might do things that you wouldn't want traced to your home.

Break out your router's manual and find out how to change the adminstrator password and set it up for WPA2 encryption. Most routers support WEP, WPA and WPA2. WPA2 is the MOST secure of the three protocols, although it's not 100 percent secure. WEP and WPA have been broken for a long time.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 10, 2011

Watch the data lights on the modem router they should stop to a random blink when all your computers go off line. If they continue to jitter like they do when "you" are doing internet stuff, while you are offline then yes your system is compromised. Generally speaking if you have a later model computer with it's firewall actice they only get internet and not you.

They will do maybe a couple blinks a second when idle.

Briar Hill Brittanys · Jun 10, 2011

We have a program that came with our Linksys router called "Network Magic" that shows when any computer in the house comes on line. McAffee will also duplicate the notice. Both have a network map to indicate status on mapped computers, any unknowns, and the wireless printer. Mark

Matt_In · Jun 10, 2011

My neighbor use to pay me for my Internet in college, worked out well for both of us. The others in the building didn't know what a computer was so I doubt they were using it.

Rollie NE PA · Jun 10, 2011

My BIL is a wireless engineer. He set everything up for me, so I guess I am lucky. However he travels alot with his job and he said alot of hotels he stays at think they have a secure network but they don't. When he tells the hotel management their network is not secure they are kind of surprised. I guess sometimes he has to show them how easy it is to gain access.

My BIL engineers and installs wireless networks for the Navy and some other gov. departments.

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