Would my neighbour sharing my internet use intefere with my useage?

totalsolutions

look in the wireless properties on your wireless router, sir

PaulK_3

Yep just check what devices are currently connected to the router, it should tell you a list of devices currently assigned an IP address from the router.

BexTech

shazspice wrote: »

This may sound a stupid question but how can you tell if someone is sharing your wireless connection?

Log into your router and check the list of who's connected.

If you encrypt your wireless and ensure you change the log in password for your router, you should reduce the chance of someone using your wireless without your say so.

mjhmjh2

Those methods will only help you if someone is daft enough to connect to your router as a foreign device.

The normal way is for the foreign device to impersonate your legitimate device, therefore you will see nothing on your router. (for those that know what a MAC address is, you simply change your MAC address on your device). The only thing you'll notice is that your Internet performance is slower or unreliable.

You may also find any number of old devices as having tried to connect but has just been a simple mistake from someone pressing the wrong buttons within distance, which would cause you to worry for no reason.

To be the most secure you want WPA, not WEP, and the passphrase must be more than 20 characters long. WEP can be cracked in under 30 minnutes on a bad day and 5 on a good. Hidding your SSID makes no difference (except making it more interesting to a hacker), MAC filtering is pointless. There is also a cryptographic error in the WPA routine that means a sub 20 character passphrase can be theoretically hacked quickly as well.

globalds

You could easily share the connection ,without leaving it open.
Just password it ...And let the neighbour share the password .
If it were me I would say try it for a week or two and see how it goes .Any issues with your surfing slowing down .Or more likely ,her not being able to keep your connection .Then knock it on the head ..
My problem is that I am networked ..and I had a neighbours machine (wireless not secured ) that fell onto my network ..Me being able to see his entire machine was probably not what he wanted ..
It may be a bit of a pain if you suddenly start sharing printers or something .

Lakeuk

globalds wrote: »

You could easily share the connection ,without leaving it open.
Just password it ...And let the neighbour share the password .

Then the neighbour passes the password on to the next neighbour etc....

C_Ronaldo

Id tell your neighbour to get theyre own connection,

globalds

Lakeuk wrote: »

Then the neighbour passes the password on to the next neighbour etc....

I doubt the wireless network coverage will get much further than the OP's walls ...
This was a method to offer a shared network ,with security ...Not an opportunity to post on the morels of the neighbour .
If you don't trust the neighbour ..Then I suppose you wouldn't share .

Blacksheep1979

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

If your main concern is impact on speed, you can actually limit the speed that your neighbour downloads at (useful when you need speed for certain applications), and you can even block access to certain programmes but allow yourself access.
If your neighbour uses bittorrent or similar, or even programmes like sky on demand, iplayer, it will cause slowdown in your connection.
I doubt the free router you get from isps give you the options to do this, but for less than £40 you can get routers that can block certain websites/applications, restrict traffic, and generally give you protection...

do you know how hard it is to effectively block bittorrent - this is a suggestion to the op who seems a little unsure about techie type stuff? Seriously not worth the hassle of the knock on the door and confiscation of computer equipment for months on end, or the letter saying we'll settle out of court for £5k etc.

polomint_2

NO WAAAAYYYY!! you can get on to each others banking etc I understand!

Tell them to get their own. If your neighbour is sharing it..whos sayd no 18, 23,16...etc isnt having a go also.?