Am i being watched.

somersethillbilly

The same way that you did in post #6

ankspon

I changed the password and username to log into the router but is that the same as wifi password

dragonfly_2

ankspon, you haven't yet answered the last part of googler's question to you, which was

If you're with BT, is BTFON enabled on your account?

ankspon

Sorry i am not with BT,it's talktalk.I have changed the wifi password now.

espresso

ankspon wrote: »

I have changed the wifi password now.

So how many characters is your new wireless key?

Have you configured it to use WPA2 encryption?

Is it something like

"ankspon" ?

or

"}?&Dl]WA*5gW;Tc~;Xks,~w~;KVSK&=*@e$3]t-rx[Rl}GVFLZ=_86BmOn=C&!#" ?

.

moneyuser

somersethillbilly wrote: »

From your other post, it looks like you had the router password set at the default? So anyone could login to your router and read your wpa password and so "piggyback" on your network, stealing your bandwidth.

If the network is already secured, how would someone connect to the network to log into the router?

somersethillbilly

moneyuser wrote: »

If the network is already secured, how would someone connect to the network to log into the router?

The network may be secured but not the router itself (if set to default username and password), therefore access to the router is a doddle, and the wifi password can easily be read.

kwikbreaks

somersethillbilly wrote: »

The network may be secured but not the router itself (if set to default username and password), therefore access to the router is a doddle, and the wifi password can easily be read.

Only if the router was set up with it's login interface available on the web and even then the supposed hacker would need to be able to associate the victim to an IP. Unless of course they broke into the house. Either way hardly "a doddle".

Normally the router login should only be accessible on the LAN. There should be an option in the settings of most to make it available on the WAN but if any default to WAN they need to be named and shamed as it is a big security hole.

somersethillbilly

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Only if the router was set up with it's login interface available on the web and even then the supposed hacker would need to be able to associate the victim to an IP. Unless of course they broke into the house. Either way hardly "a doddle".

Normally the router login should only be accessible on the LAN. There should be an option in the settings of most to make it available on the WAN but if any default to WAN they need to be named and shamed as it is a big security hole.

You'd be suprised, not that I'm suggesting that you "give it a go"

kwikbreaks

I wouldn't be surprised by mine as I know I block the option.

I also wouldn't be surprised to find router web interfaces available to me by trawling random IPs. I would be very surprised if one of those I could access just by chance happened to be a near neighbour whose SSID I could identify. VM do issue blocks of their IPs over small areas but their now standard device (Superhub) has no web access by default.

What did amaze me is the number of wide open APs around. One Belkin model clearly has wifi on with no encryption by default as you see the same SSID with no encryption time after time.