i am using bt home hub. and i suspect that a guy next door is stealing our house connection. the thing is, i dont know how to change the key. or maybe the key is not changable. so i need evidence! please help! he is slowing the interent connection big time! he uses it to play some onlonr game!
and our connection is suppose to share between 6 people, but now its sharing between 7! please help!
2006-12-02 12:17:49 · 7 answers · asked by heartless_916 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
sorry, i didnt state this clearer.
the connection is secured, you need a password to log onto it.
but i am living in a student accomodation you see. when i first moved in the house, that guy said his password for his home hub is not here yet.
so he asked to use ours until he got his, and i said ok. but now he is using a wireless duo thing which allow him to connect to two wireless at the same time. so he can play the game smoothly.
2006-12-02 12:30:50 · update #1
ok, heres the deal, the key is not changable. not by me anyway. i live in student accomodation! and i cant just change the password.
i told the uni wt happened and they seem that they dun give a xxxx.
but those mac address thing seems workable if u can tell me how to get it.
the mac address tht were given by one of the answerers dont work at all.
2006-12-03 13:32:02 · update #2
ok here is what you need to do. your router should be on your local network as 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.2.1 try these in the address bar of your web browser.
once it comes up you should see a list of settings one of which is security. and one should be a list of the computers and internet enabled devices on your network which will list the MAC address of the computers. what you need to do is identify the MAC address of all your Network capable equipment all items authorised to connect to your hub.
when you know these addresses. you go to the security settings and use MAC address filtering, and set it to allow only the MAC addresses you specify. now type in the mac address in the box one mac address per line normally you need to click between entering pairs of numbers. now once every code is put in. select the save or apply option.
now go to the section where you can set a password to enter and change the settings of the hub, set the password and only tell the word to anyone authorised to make changes to the hub besides you.
and hey presto your network will be secure from outside attack.
are you sure t is sharing between seven people and not seven devices. a bluetooth phone in your houshold may be connected to the network, your lap tops, a games console, your desktop systems. anything that can connect to the hub will appear as a device. so check carefully.
you may have to open your computers to find the mac address of each computer.
remember to connect to the hub via ethernet cable for setting up security for best possible results.
it may also pay you to run the bt help program that should be available on your system somewhere (installed when you installed the hub).
good luck in solving your security problem.
2006-12-02 12:34:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
First, change the key for the network. "I don't know how" is not an excuse -- that's what technical support is for. :)
Second, most routers have a feature where you can find out what computers are connected and see their MAC addresses. (A MAC address is a unique number assigned to the computer's network adapter, generally given in the form 00:30:63:1e:b6:21 ). You should be able to figure out which MAC address belongs to the unwanted computer, and then you can enable MAC address filtering and stop that guy from connecting.
Third, you might want to look at your router's access logs and see if you can find the evidence you need there.
How you do all these things depends on your router -- check the documentation.
2006-12-03 02:05:21 · answer #2 · answered by MarnenLK 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to the website of the company who makes your router and find out how you can secure your connection so that it requires a key to use. You'll only have to enter this key once on your laptop or wireless device to use it and 'always allow' it access to that connection, but it will prevent others who dont know that key from using your connection at all. So, start with the manufacture's website to start. Good luck!
2006-12-02 12:24:06 · answer #3 · answered by Green1808 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to the website cnet and download a program called my wifi zone load the program, restart and your sorted it prevents others from connecting to your wifi router. i use the same router no problems found. Good luck
2006-12-03 07:30:30 · answer #4 · answered by DAVID N 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there should be some setting in the software which will let you encrpyt the wireless network, making it require a password to log onto, thereby negating your neighbour's ability to piggy back your network
2006-12-02 12:21:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
disconnect your router- call up the provider and reset everything again. I don't know how to detect it but if you've left it open to everyone to use then i don't know what else you were expecting!
2006-12-02 12:23:15 · answer #6 · answered by antagonist 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
redetect is the best software for this problem
2006-12-02 23:04:16 · answer #7 · answered by star ray 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋