Hi Rick,
the best way to figure out if somebody is using your DSL without your
permission is to check the number of IP addresses that your wireless
router assigned to clients. You can do that on the router - you
should be able to connect to its IP address via browser on http:// or
https:// port. If there are more more addresses assigned than you
have computers then it is clear that someone uses your badwidth. In
any case I would suggest you to enable wireless security at least via
WEP (although this is not very strong security it should keep people
out for few days). You can also consider enabling MAC address filter
(MAC address is unique ID of each network card - yes people can find
ways to change their MAC address, but this is another level of
protection of your network). If you enable the MAC address filter be
sure to add any new equipment that you add later (new computer,
network printer, etc. otherwise they will be unable to connect to
your network). And lastly you can disable broadcast of the network
SSID which should help hide your network (again this is only weak
protection as people that already know your SSID are likel to connect
wihout problems). You may need to change your SSID to something else
before you disable SSID broadcast.
By the way securing your network is very good idea as you could be
held responsible for what people do from your segment of the network
- I hope your neighbors are no spammers or crackers... Not to scare you.
Hope this helps.
Best Regards, Jan
On Oct 24, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Rick McCutcheon wrote:
Greetings Mac Folks,
At home I notice that my DSL modem lights occasionally are flashing
quite noticeably when neither my TiBook (Mercury/Panther) nor the
9600 (400/9.1) ethernet connected desk top are on. Both are routed
through a motorola wireless router/ethernet hub.
We live in an apartment block. I'm wondering if others in the
building might be accessing the modem through the wireless router?
I'm assuming that's very possible. I'm curious to know, is there a
way for me to check and see if that is the situation by looking at
wireless activity while I'm hooked up with the TiBook (is this
built into Panther, which I'm still very much learning, or do I
need third party activity tracking software)? Would other devices
like wireless phones possibly make the lights jump? How worried
should I be, if at all. Are they getting a free ride? Or worse?
Could they hack into it without passwords? (Generally I assume
virtually anything is possible...) I've never noticed that
anything untoward is happening with my computers. The TiBook
mostly stays at work, in any case.
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