i'd just like to confirm if i have a hitcher or not.
2006-08-21 23:48:18 · 5 answers · asked by pyg 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Check your routers wireless connection table. It will tell you which IP's are connected. If you see one you don't recognize you have someone spongeing.
2006-08-22 03:40:51 · answer #1 · answered by Jim R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A WiFi community is constrained to an approximate three hundred foot radius around the bottom unit (depending on surroundings, signal type and interference). Unsecured, every person can connect and use the internet or browse the community community. Being contained in the country and in no way something extremely being round, there is not too a lot to rigidity about so a ways as safe practices, yet I nevertheless recommend that it really is secured purely to be danger-free. Any own data (names, mastercard, monetary employer data, etc.) is susceptible both interior of that radius and through the internet if not secured correct (SSL). even with if the WiFi is secured, that type of information could be dug out of the transmission, if someone is determined sufficient.
2016-11-30 23:51:25 · answer #2 · answered by zollicoffer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can download free Ethernet sniffer software, and run it on a computer connected to a hub that is in between your router and the broadband modem. Then you can capture and analyze the packets going back and forth. With the rest of your network idle, you would not expect HTML requests. If you see them, that is a freeloader surfing the web. It's very easy to figure out who they are, since much HTML traffic is unencrypted. It is also very easy to see where they go and block those addresses in your router!
Of course, the first thing to do is to enable WEP in your wireless router with a good random password!
2006-08-22 00:10:04 · answer #3 · answered by pondering_it_all 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can turn off your cable or DSL modem when you are not using it, and aggravate him.
Seriously, your router knows how many DHCP addresses it has handed out and how many connections it has open. Looking at it varies considerably by router, but if you dig around, you will find it.
While you are looking at the router, consider setting encryption or MAC address filtering, which both tend to keep spongers at bay.
2006-08-22 00:21:39 · answer #4 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure just e-mail me with your router Model and i will tell you how
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2006-08-21 23:53:14 · answer #5 · answered by PC DOCTOR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋