How do you know that someone is stealing your Wi-Fi

Techno 15 February, 2018

2018-02-15 22:15

How do you know that someone is stealing your Wi-Fi
Find out how easily, quickly and without panic to determine what a villain has stuck to your wireless traffic!

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A word about panic, in fact, is not accidental, because only your home Wi-Fi starts to slow down, my head begin to climb bad thoughts that your Internet sucked the entire house and half of the apartments in the house across the street. However, in 90% of cases of braking, wifi stops after a banal tired restarting the router, especially if it happens in the hot season or in the midst of the heating season. Previously wrote about how to ensure maximum performance and stability to your home Wi-Fi channel, reports Rus.Media.

Still, if you’re not being paranoid, it does not mean that your Internet is not stealing. Stealing traffic, illegal connection with the purpose of anonymization and even sabotage — the phenomenon is extremely widespread.

Connecting in your Wi-Fi gives the attacker a good chance to meet some of your personal information, to arrange a destructive Apocalypse in the local network and to take control of your wireless gadgets. That would not be good, and sometimes not at all.

Step 1. External examination

Almost any router features on-Board led indicators that display the activity of the wired and wireless channels. It is easy to guess that if you disable the house network every computer and gadget, all the lights on the router go out (except that the indicator service provider). However, if some bastard still uses your Wi-Fi channel, the channel indicator will continue to flash.

Before panic in the case of a bad scenario, it is important to make sure that you cut down all devices including mobile, smartphone, spouses, tablet, child, and cat media server. What you could just forget to cut off: in a modern house, the number of Wi-Fi gadgets can be large.

Step 2. Console admin

There are very simple program for monitoring your home Wi-Fi network, like SoftPerfect WiFi Guard, but we will focus on more hardcore and universal procedures.

Many users years do not go to the administration console of the router, especially if your home network they set up themselves, and pay a beer to the neighbor-itsnice.

Actually nothing: to do it regularly to install updates firmware anyway to see if everything is working correctly. Nothing extremely difficult and dangerous to administer, does not (although, truth be told, some routers, especially older ones and from unknown manufacturers, the admin interface bezobrazno ).

For this browser you need to dial the IP address of the router. The default address is usually given on the body of the router, but if the address is changed, it is possible to find out: call command console Windows by pressing Win+R and subsequent set commands CMD. Next, in the dialog text terminal you type and enter the word ipconfig. The system you will be given a list of key locations, among them — the default gateway (default gateway”, that is the address where the computer sends all packets by default). This will be the address of the router.

On the MacOS from Apple, similar information is extracted by opening the Network Preference menu, where following the word Ruter are the desired coordinates.

After entering the address in the browser the router will be prompted for the username and password. Default is usually admin and password, if not an empty string (see manual), but if you still have not changed their own passwords, we feel sorry for you. This should be done at any cost and immediately. Here right now!

Then you have to find a complete list of physical devices connected to your router. That is complete list, because the list of DHCP clients is not such by nature. So do not look for the DHCP client list, and a menu like the Attached Devices, My Network, Device List, etc.

Let’s say you found in the list of explicitly storoni device. The most obvious and fastest solution is simply to change the password to Wi-Fi (and the password to the admin interface of the router, for emergencies). If you have the opportunity to appoint a more sophisticated encryption and verification of access — make good use of it, but more on that later.

Step 3. Network monitor

The admin console will show you the MAC address of the thieves, but there is almost nothing. If there is a desire to investigate who and how you have stuck, will have to master more complex procedures. Many recommend to use MoocherHunter app that allows you to track criminals operating in your local network. MoocherHunter generates and analyzes traffic and provides the coordinates of the suspicious object with a precision of two meters!

The program works fairly specific: it can not just be run, it creates a boot disk, and then you’ll have to go with a laptop around the neighborhood, while Wi-Fi antenna catches the signal and calculates the lair of the enemy.

Some modern routers, especially those that support the principle of the so-called “mesh topology” (mesh networking), able to use clever software for detailed network analysis. But compatible apps you will have to look for yourself on the manufacturer’s website or online store — we are here to give you any help.

Step 4. Strengthening doors

Usually routers offer a whole heap of encryption systems to choose from. To understand what was happening, the man without experience is problematic. You need to know what security protocols WEP and WPA long been compromised and susceptible to basic hacking. Pros recommend the use of WPA2, and preferably a more robust version WPA2-AES (WPA2-TKIP is outdated too actually). Do not use mixed security protocols (mixed security) because it is easier to find a hole a few protocols to choose from, than any one.

And we are very much scum, if not we will give you a list of the most popular password last year! Use any of them in your network and feed the whole world free Internet!

The 25 most popular passwords in order of frequency of use:

password

One hundred twenty three thousand four hundred fifty six

Twelve million three hundred forty five thousand six hundred seventy eight

abc123

qwerty

monkey

letmein

dragon

One hundred eleven thousand one hundred eleven

baseball

iloveyou