i have connected to my next doors wireless

Rex_Mundi

dickibobboy wrote:

well, i am thinking about going to tell him, i could get into the shared folder on his pc and the printer was there, it is not at all safe,

I think the appreciation you would generate by letting your neighbour know, would far outweigh any benefit you would get from being able to use their network.

statman

I have a situation whereby my computer says there is an available network?
Am I open to them looking at my things and could i look at theirs?
Again I have thought of knocking but I don't know who it may be??
I agree with not taking advantage of your neighbours.

dickibobboy

they can only look if you are connected to the network, if you dont connect they cannot look and you cannot look

happenstance

Rex_Mundi wrote:

If I had my milk delivered in the morning by the milkman, and my neighbour came along and used some of it for his coffee. Going by what you say, it would be my fault for not securing the milk well enough. As you would agree, that would be rubbish. Knowingly taking something that someone else has paid for is theft. Whether that's a bit of milk, or a bit of the bandwidth they've paid for.

I see what your saying but milk and net access are different. The internet access is beamed into someone elses house. If my neighbour had some of his milk delivered straight into my fridge would it be wrong to have it?

I've got someone elses internet access that I can pickup, never use is as I have my own much faster, but know idea who's it is.

in_my_wellies

My neighbours is open. We could see severals details of the deal they have, including names, accounts type, etc. My son went across and told them they should secure it. The man spoke down to my son telling him it couldn't possibly true as they all used a password! He tried to explain but didn't get through.

sloughflint

Thanks for this thread. I am now wondering how safe my wireless connection is. I wouldn't have a clue.
My current setup is pc hooked up to Netgear DG834PN modem router via ethernet cable and laptop finds it automatically. I wouldn't know if anyone else can access it. Would you mind advising me please? And if it is not secure, how would I make it so? Thanks

Woby_Tide

I went as far as changing the broadcast SSID of one of my neighbours to be 'your network is unsecure, read the manual about how to secure it'


2 years later, and guess what the SSID still is. No idea who it actually is

espresso

sloughflint wrote:

Thanks for this thread. I am now wondering how safe my wireless connection is. I wouldn't have a clue.
My current setup is pc hooked up to Netgear DG834PN modem router via ethernet cable and laptop finds it automatically. I wouldn't know if anyone else can access it. Would you mind advising me please? And if it is not secure, how would I make it so? Thanks

First RTFM as each make and model is slightly different, although the principle is the same for all types!

Then read the sticky "Wireless - Look here! File & Printer Sharing too" at the top of this forum.

If you have not enabled any security, the chances are that it will be totally insecure as it is usually disabled by default. There have been many thread on how to set up wireless security for various types of router.

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dickibobboy

sloughflint wrote:

Thanks for this thread. I am now wondering how safe my wireless connection is. I wouldn't have a clue.
My current setup is pc hooked up to Netgear DG834PN modem router via ethernet cable and laptop finds it automatically. I wouldn't know if anyone else can access it. Would you mind advising me please? And if it is not secure, how would I make it so? Thanks

in a browser type in 192.168.0.1 and then a password box will come up, by default Usernamw: Admin Password: Password

then scroll down the side to wireless settings, then somewhere on there you will find security options, then select the option WEP, then some more options should appear, enter a passphrase, anything you like and then generate, select one of the 4 codes made, WRITE IT DOWN, then apply, your wireless should now have disconnected, click on the software you use to connect to your wirelessit may be windows or will be software that came with it) and search for networks and then when you see yours connect somewhere it will ask you for a passkey, enter the one you made, then ok

you should now be back online, and your network is secure

albertross_2

wep is better than nothing, but is crackable. wpa is much better.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=1177776&postcount=7

to tell if your is secure, right click on your wireless network icon, view available networks, in there should be listed all available networks, if they are using wpa (good), it should say security enabled wireless network (WPA).

changing and turning off the ssid broadcasting is the quickest method of stopping casual hackers, but you need to setup encryption to make it secure. this will remove your network from the list of available networks altogether, so they won't even know you are there (without Linux)