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USING YOUR NEIGHBORS WIRELESS SETUP: What conseaquenceS?

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mmx

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I was fixing my friends laptop, when i tried to see the wireless, then suddenly i was getting 1.2meg internet. I said wow. then i told my friend your neighbors have wireless setup.

The i log on to their router to see which neighboor was. But if i was someone bad i could have lock the neighbor out of his own router. I told my friend to tell the neighboor to call me so I can secure his network.

But imagine, i'm a hacker i could EASYly log on to their network, and steal files.

What consequences r to stelaing bandwidth? I clocked the speed using dslreports.com amazin DSl from bellsouth.

Any1 one have similar experience.
 
There's really no laws against seeing their network, as it's unsecured. But if you mess with their files or settings, you'll probably be in for a world of pain in small claims if they catch you and are mad about it.
 
Originally posted by: mmx
I was fixing my friends laptop, when i tried to see the wireless, then suddenly i was getting 1.2meg internet. I said wow. then i told my friend your neighbors have wireless setup.

The i log on to their router to see which neighboor was. But if i was someone bad i could have lock the neighbor out of his own router. I told my friend to tell the neighboor to call me so I can secure his network.

But imagine, i'm a hacker i could EASYly log on to their network, and steal files.

What consequences r to stelaing bandwidth? I clocked the speed using dslreports.com amazin DSl from bellsouth.

Any1 one have similar experience.
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how can u secure a wireless network? my cousin has one, and I think I should secure it for them, but the problem is I dont know how or what to use
 
how can u secure a wireless network? my cousin has one, and I think I should secure it for them, but the problem is I dont know how or what to use
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WEP - Wireless Encryption Protocol. 128bit strength.
 
Originally posted by: mmx
I was fixing my friends laptop, when i tried to see the wireless, then suddenly i was getting 1.2meg internet. I said wow. then i told my friend your neighbors have wireless setup.

The i log on to their router to see which neighboor was. But if i was someone bad i could have lock the neighbor out of his own router. I told my friend to tell the neighboor to call me so I can secure his network.

But imagine, i'm a hacker i could EASYly log on to their network, and steal files.

What consequences r to stelaing bandwidth? I clocked the speed using dslreports.com amazin DSl from bellsouth.

Any1 one have similar experience.
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mmx, it might be a Federal crime but I'm not 100% sure, so tread carefully.
 
wep. No i told my friend just toto talk to them and pay $15 to them so u can share the connection. That way she has awesome speed for $15.
 
She has cable modem BTW. she is not using their connection NOR am i. But i just wanted to point you guys that people JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT SECURITY.
 
Got sick of someone leeching off my bandwidth so I enabled WEP, you can easily see the computers on your network.

Originally posted by: vi_edit
how can u secure a wireless network? my cousin has one, and I think I should secure it for them, but the problem is I dont know how or what to use
Click to expand...

WEP - Wireless Encryption Protocol. 128bit strength.
Click to expand...

 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
how can u secure a wireless network? my cousin has one, and I think I should secure it for them, but the problem is I dont know how or what to use
Click to expand...

WEP - Wireless Encryption Protocol. 128bit strength.
Click to expand...
WEP is known to be broken, but it's definitely worth enabling.

Things you should do:
  1. Change the SSID
  2. Disable SSID broadcast if possible
  3. Enable MAC address access control
  4. Change the router (default) password
Believe it or not, a lot of users don't do *any* of these steps.

Some disable WEP because of the 40% throughput hit in some implementations.
 
I accidently used a neighbor's wireless once because I was setting up my new wireless router. I fired up my laptop to see if it'd associate and it connected to the wrong SSID.

A quick check in NetStumbler show'd it to be my neighbor's totally defaulted out D-Link router. Even the admin password was default.

I thought about walking around my apartment complex and finding out who it is and offer to help... but decided to just force my laptop to use my SSID only instead. If my neighbor wants wide-open wireless it's their business.
 
Maybe it is my imagination but WEP 128 seems to slows things down a bit, but well worth the security. Use WEP, change the SSID, change the router password, and change the IP addresses from the default to be a little more secure.......
 
I recently enabled WEP on my setup. I have a USB issue with the computer that my WiFi NIC is on, so it looses the device randomly. Having to reset it one day, I noticed what appeared to be a local government WiFi AP (state, county or city, not sure). It mustof been boosted because I could get the beacon, but not connect. So I knew there were other WiFi users around.

One thing, what's the difference between shared and open key? All I know is when I had shared key enabled I would have to relogin every 5 minutes or so.
 
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