Piggybacking

ankspon

Can you tell if someone else is using your broadband eg a neighbour.

John_Gray

Some routers will tell you all the connected devices. Go into the router's Administrator webpage and have a hunt!

googler

Neighbour can only be using your 'broadband' if you have an unsecured wireless router.

If you've enabled MAC address filtering on your router, then it's very unlikely.

If you have a purely hard-wired, ethernet router, it's impossible for neighbours to access that.

If you have BTFON enabled, others may be using your bandwidth (as you agreed they could do under BTFON's T&Cs), but not your actual network.

As was said, look at the router control panel for connected devices. If you always use the same devices, get their MAC addresses and enable MAC address filtering so that only these devices can connect.

Benet

If you have an Android phone, ezNetScan is a very handy tool for searching for piggybackers. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vrsspl.eznetscan

ezNetScan is a handy network tool for network administrators - it scans wireless network and displays the list of all connected devices.

It won't do anything complicated like kicking them off, etc, but its handy to see if they're there.

PS. Secure your network!

sillygoose

Benet wrote: »

If you have an Android phone, ezNetScan is a very handy tool for searching for piggybackers. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vrsspl.eznetscan



It won't do anything complicated like kicking them off, etc, but its handy to see if they're there.

PS. Secure your network!

Thanks, what a fascinating program! identified an Acer Laptop as a Hon Hai device, Google shows Hon Hai as Foxcon - my cheap laptop has been 'outed' as a closet Apple! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Still haven't worked out what one device is though, made by Pace PLC who I know for modems... oh hang on its the Sky Box, amazing!