butcha87 Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Hey, Recently my internet has been really slow and sometimes when I play games online my ping rockets for no reason (I.E. All p2p programs are closed etc.). I checked my router settings (Netgear) and it turns out there is someone elses computer in my attached devices. This is what is stealing my internet. How can I encrypt my router or otherwise prevent the little shits from stealing my bandwidth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrat Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 In your router setup program there should be an option to turn on MAC address filtering (Dont turn it on Yet!). Find the MAC address of your machine (not sure where you can find that in Windows) and enter that in the list of machines that can have access to the router, then turn on the filtering. That should stop them!! I used to do that to the girls i shared a house with when they pissed me off.... Henry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Arnold Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Hey, Recently my internet has been really slow and sometimes when I play games online my ping rockets for no reason (I.E. All p2p programs are closed etc.). I checked my router settings (Netgear) and it turns out there is someone elses computer in my attached devices. This is what is stealing my internet. How can I encrypt my router or otherwise prevent the little shits from stealing my bandwidth? ← knock on their door and kick them in the balls B) alternatively, if that doesn't work, do it again :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrat Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Actually i like his idea better! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swize Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 (edited) knock on their door and kick them in the balls :P alternatively, if that doesn't work, do it again (Y) ← ^^^ Gets my vote ^^^ Stick a password on you router then they shouldunt be able to connect :P ? It has to be someone nearby soo Take a large stick and hit who ever it is and tell them they owe you money for stealing you broadband . If all of the above fail go cable B) Sam Edited August 23, 2005 by samthebiker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 MAC filtering is the best way and most secure. Also you can use WEP, but that's not as good and harder to set up I think. So use either MAC filtering or MAC filtering AND WEP, if you like. All the settings should be on your router - It should give you a list of all the computers accessing your network, and then you will be able to allow/deny each one as you wish. Admittedly I've never set up a wireless router, but I imagine it's the same as on my wired router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcha87 Posted August 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 knock on their door and kick them in the balls B) alternatively, if that doesn't work, do it again :P ← Erk,I'd have to kick every one of my neighbours balls in, cos' I don't have a clue which one is doing it! :P Cheers for the help guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcha87 Posted August 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Ok,jsut tried the MAC thing, I've added my MAC address to trusted IP's and no others, yet the other person still appears in my "Attached Devices" screen. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrat Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Your MAC address is a different thing to your IP address... There should be a separate list for MAC address. If you can filter IP addresses then try deleting the thieving bastards IP.. other than that, out of ideas./ B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Have you turned on the filtering? If so it could just be a case of them being able to connect to the router, but being denied by it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trials_pimp Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Send em a message (if you can over a router) saying you have slept with their wife/husband. When the angry party comes over, KICK THEM IN THE BALLS/TEETH This saves you: 1) Hunting around houses to find the person 2) having to leave to comfort of you own home.. Either that, or download loads of child porn to their computer, and call the cops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcha87 Posted August 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Have you turned on the filtering? If so it could just be a case of them being able to connect to the router, but being denied by it. ← Theres no option too, so I assume its on. Also, sorry, I didn't mean trusted IP's I meant trusted PC's, I put the MAC address in there as instructed. I also setup the WEP, am I right in thinking any PC which wants to connect to my wireless will now need the passphrase I entered?How do I put this into the wireles adapters used ony my dad's and sister's laptop!Any way, the wanker seems to not be sucking up any of my juice now!!Thanks a lot!! :huh: :D (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackghostknife Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Haha my neighbours have no security at all.. idiot we can get onto there whole hardrive.. all there chat-logs and its a girl at my school in the year below :D :huh:" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Theres no option too, so I assume its on. Also, sorry, I didn't mean trusted IP's I meant trusted PC's, I put the MAC address in there as instructed. I also setup the WEP, am I right in thinking any PC which wants to connect to my wireless will now need the passphrase I entered?How do I put this into the wireles adapters used ony my dad's and sister's laptop!Any way, the wanker seems to not be sucking up any of my juice now!!Thanks a lot!! :D (Y) :P ← You need to: Go into the router setup ( www.routerlogin.net I think :huh: ) Click on Advanced Wireless Setup in the firewall main menu Under Wireless card access list, click Setup Access List Tick Turn Access Control On Select a card, then click Add When you've done all the cards you want to do, click Apply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Report him to the police. It's against the Law, I was speaking to my uncle about his network at the weekend, and he was saying how he prosecuted a guy who had been stealing WiFi connection from a neighbor. (He's a barrister.) Soon sort him out. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 There's no specific law about it at the moment. Although I think it would be against the law if you asked your neighbour not to use your internet and he still did. Kinda like having a big field and no gates or something. People can wander through and frolick in the fields. But then if you put up a "No Trespassing" sign, it'd be illegal. The chance of anyone getting into trouble = very slim though, unless they were doing something really bad. Bear in mind that you can wander over to various hotspots and get it for free anyway. In fact I have heard of people with their own wireless setup connecting to nextdoor's by mistake. Their connection dropped and their computer picked up nextdoor's connection and started using it without saying a word, the user didn't even know. IMHO, if someone's stupid enough to leave their internet open to outsiders, they should expect some people to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The enchanted broomstick Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 if you download the d-link wireless utitlity then run it in infrastructure mode you can enable encryption which then requires a random 26 digit key im pretty sure whoever is doing this will have a fairly hard time trying to crack a pass code that big. stu :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 But it's a Netgear router... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Swales Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 How can I encrypt my router or otherwise prevent the little shits from stealing my bandwidth? shoot him in the kne and sell his computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The enchanted broomstick Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 we have a company called shenstone business systems that set up our work places entire wireless network, i shall ask them what they suggest doing and they will have a good answer for you, i shall ask them sometime tomorrow and post up the reply that they give me. stu (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcha87 Posted August 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 we have a company called shenstone business systems that set up our work places entire wireless network, i shall ask them what they suggest doing and they will have a good answer for you, i shall ask them sometime tomorrow and post up the reply that they give me. stu (Y) ← Thanks man!Thanks everyone for your help!For now,it seems the problem is remedied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The enchanted broomstick Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 Right, i have spoken to our technical manager and he said: You should have some sort of console for your wireless router. On your console (the program that operates the router) you should have an option to login. The passwords and username are usually set to the defaults and should be able to be located within the manual you got with your router. Once you are logged in to the console you should have a button or a tab that says "wireless" or something similar. Within that there should be an option for encryption which allows you to apply either a 64 bit or 128 bit key. You then need to configure your wireless connection so that when you connect your key is right and accepted and this should stop anybody from being able to break the code and should give you and only you the access to your internet connection. Hopefully that helped a bit, stu :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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