blocking neighbors wireless attacks

[Sync45]

Originally Posted by emsudos

I wonder if he's not using your bandwidth...not jamming you...but some how "leeching" your bandwidth. Have you checked your router log records to see if there is the remote chance that someone has entered and connected to your router?

I think checking here will find his isp number which might come in handy someday

[emsudos]

If you can catch him while he's actually doing it it will leave his MAC behind. The next question though is he smart enough to be "spoofing" his MAC or i.p or both for that matter. I've tried to think of what he would get by jamming you guys and I can't think of what he would gain by doing that....now if he could leech your bandwidth then he would gain something. I'm not sure how he would be leeching every bodies in the neighborhood though.

[lonster]

He could be rotating from the list of available networks in the area, that would be the smarter thing to do.
Jamming everyone in the area is just plain dumb. Unless the guy gets off on screwing other people he would have nothing to gain from jamming the signal, this could very well be true but still just doesn't make much sense to me.

[yamahadude157]

You could install network magic and the network map will tell you if its just that he has connected to you router and is hogging your bandwidth. Also Comodo firewall will give you info on current connections and help to identify the culprit. Good Luck

[SoDarkTheCon]

get a modem/router with encyrption on it, usually the 10 key password is quite efficient. Most IT guys can only work with what they got, if your whole neighbourhood has open wifi access then you all should be ashamed of yourselves and are asking for problems One step further would be kicking the "IT" out of him... What people have replied with are all great ways. If you feel like he is doing something illegal call the cops... can't hurt, just hide your receiver if the cops want to come in.

[dirtywill2001]

quick question...do you lose signal totally or do you have signal and just not able to connect/access to your network?

[johnnybluedawg]

if he is sucking all your bandwidth,, it would show on front of modem and router,that ur wireless is being used ,, if u lose ur wireless,, and no lights come on ur modem and router,, then he is messing with ur wireless signal, perhaps jamming it ,, this would give you an idea of exactly what he is up to,,

[pulpworker]

I like the idea of calling the internet company and i'll tell you they will cancel his, thats what happen to a few on this street, he is doing this illegally and he should be stopped anyway, he will only find another way in time, he is an ******* is right but he is far from stupid.

[joker78]

Originally Posted by fossil112

that's a way good idea. though, the ISP may just say "we're not responsible for your wireless configurations". then you're SOL.

vandalism would certainly feel better than anything course, that's not right

I agree with you fossil112, you got to get i little more smard and payed back to him.

[gibahca]

Try to stop broadcasting your connection name over the air.
Use a name that you'll not forget and every device that you need to add you'll need to add the name manually but nobody other than you will know that name.
Like that it will be a little bit harder for him.
Also try to change your router password.
Never use it as the default admin user name and blank password.

I dont use any security ...i dont broadcast my connection name and nobody knows that i have it at home.

[tomcat01]

hey there bud there is alot of good ideas here yes first what esodom said you can check your logs and see if there is any out side ip addresses then in your router goto your lan and wireless and make sure he is not on your connection ( if you are not sure you can go to each computer hit run then cmd and type ipconfig and compare each ip to you router)if he is the go to mac fitering and then you can deny access to the network using his mac address

then i would do what gibahca said and make yourself invisible and change the channel after that .. too

then if you want you can go to sheilds up and check to make sure that your firewall and all the ports that are open are properly forwarded here is a mine and i passed and i have port 21 open and i have full sharing working if you know how to do it properly you can keep yourself safe and still use all the extra ports for what you want here is the test i did also 1920 for the sv 8000hd good luck this is my opinion ..

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if it is not any of these then he could be blocking but this means he is using a wired connetion and is messing with you wireless guys ..

[tomcat01]

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[Victor Hugo]

Originally Posted by eclipsemoon

Good Luck, im sure glad that guys is not my neighbor.i would probably punch him right in the nose!

I second That Mr. moon.

[notebook]

Originally Posted by chefkrh

I live in a cul de sac and when my IT neighbor comes home from work everyone except him loses wireless signal. We (the neighbors) have confronted him about it and he laughs at us. Our wireless goes down within minutes of him turning on his home office light. How can we block him and get our signal back? Changing channels on our routers is pointless, nothing works. Last time I said something he replied "maybe you should get an old cd and some old cordless phone antennas to block me, it's amazing what you can find on the internet..hahahahahaha" I'm about to go put a shovel through his coax in several places. Does anyone know how we can put an end to this?

Call your wireless router help desk, they will talk you through the process of preventing this type privacy invasion.

[originalfacsimi]

You say you are running wpa-psk2 which is good. Along with that you should have your SSID disable and along with a powerful paraphrase (mines is > 15 characters) and a good password. Also set up your router to accept only your MAC addresses (of course you will need to enter them). If all this fails then he is differently "stepping" on you.