How to Know if your Neighbors are Using your WiFi Connection

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How to Know if your Neighbors are Using your WiFi Connection-: Free Wi-Fi connection are like jackpot and everybody loves this jackpot. safety and security of wi-fi connection is always a important concern for more information you can read my post How to Secure your Wi-Fi Network. In this post we will learn how to know if someone using your wi-fi connection without your permission.

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How to Know if your Neighbors are Using your WiFi Connection-:

First Know the details of your Internet Connection-:

Go to command prompt from the run and type ipconfig/ all for all the details like IP address, DNS server address etc. about your Internet connection.

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Also Know, if your neighbors are using your WiFi connection

STEP 1-: Open your browser and visit http://192.168.1.1 or http://192.168.0.1 is the default gateway of most wireless routers or ADSL modems. There are several IP main addresses a router can take, 192.168.l.l is the most common one though 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.1 are also other options. These are commonly known as host addresses.

STEP 2-: Go to the “Attached Devices” tab of your Wireless Router or ADSL Modem.

STEP 3-: Find the computer name, IP address and MAC Address of your computer using the previous trick.

STEP 4-: Compare it with those displayed by your router. if details shown by your Router is different then someone using your Wi-Fi without your permission.

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