Block wireless?

Question

My neighbor is using my internet 24/7 connection through my router. He even admitted using my connection. I don't know what he does but he probably downloads bunch of p**n and games and movies off torrent. How do I block other people using my internet? Help?

Answer 1

Talk to the company that you get your internet. It's called encrypting your internet found a tutorial for you

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3-j8tm1Xsis

Answer 2

remove antenna

Answer 3

You can add a user and password To connec in your WIFI connexion.

You can install a Firewall to Block any intrusion

See if your Connexion is Shared, if Yes, disable it.

Goodluck!

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Answer 4

Alright there are several simple things you can do to ensure he can never access your internet.

1. WEP Key(can be found with a lot of persistance and some networking knowledge)

2. MAC Address filtering- Find the MAC addresses of the computers in your home(Start > Run > cmd > Type in everything inside the quotes "ipconfig /all") and then enter each MAC address into the MAC Address Filtering section

3. This is a MUST: CHANGE THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO ACCESS THE ROUTER!!!!

Answer 5

You don't say what router you have but virtually all router manufactured in recent years have wep or wpa or both security encryption systems available.

Set up your router to require an encrytped wep or wpa 128 bit (16 characters) connection.  He won't be able to use your router that way...

When using a wireless access point or router it is important to remember that if you can send information from one device and receive it at another, anyone else within range might also be able to receive it. When protecting data send via wireless, security and protection is offered through encryption schemes that come with your wireless hardware you can enable.

Short for Wired Equivalent Privacy (or Wireless Encryption Protocol), WEP is part of the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking standard and was designed to provide the same level of security as that of a wired LAN. Because wireless networks broadcast messages using radio, they are susceptible to eavesdropping. WEP provides security by encrypting data over radio waves so that it is protected as it is transmitted from one end point to another.

WEP was the encryption scheme considered to be the initial standard for first generation wireless networking devices. However, it has been found that WEP is not as secure as once believed. WEP is used at the two lowest layers of the OSI model - the data link and physical layers; it therefore does not offer end-to-end security.

WEP's major weakness is its use of static encryption keys. When you set up a router with a WEP encryption key, that one key is used by every device on your network to encrypt every packet that's transmitted. But the fact that packets are encrypted doesn't prevent them from being intercepted, and due to some esoteric technical flaws it's entirely possible for an eavesdropper to intercept enough WEP-encrypted packets to eventually deduce what the key is.

This problem used to be something you could mitigate by periodically changing the WEP key (which is why routers generally allow you to store up to four keys). But few bother to do this because changing WEP keys is inconvenient and time-consuming because it has to be done not just on the router, but on every device that connects to it. As a result, most people just set up a single key and then continue using it ad infinitum.

WPA aims to provide stronger wireless data encryption than WEP, but not everyone has or was able to jump onboard with the new wireless encryption technology. In order to use WPA all devices on the network must be configured for WPA. If a device is not configured for WPA, it will usually fall back to the lesser WEP encryption scheme, enabling the wireless devices to communicate on the network. The technology was designed to work with existing Wi-Fi products that have been enabled with WEP (i.e., as a software upgrade to existing hardware), but the technology includes two improvements over WEP:

Improved data encryption through the temporal key integrity protocol (TKIP). TKIP scrambles the keys using a hashing algorithm and, by adding an integrity-checking feature, ensures that the keys haven't been tampered with.

User authentication, which is generally missing in WEP, through the extensible authentication protocol (EAP). WEP regulates access to a wireless network based on a computer's hardware-specific MAC address, which is relatively simple to be sniffed out and stolen. EAP is built on a more secure public-key encryption system to ensure that only authorized network users can access the network.

WPA has been a mainstream technology for years now, but WEP remains a standard feature on virtually every wireless router on store shelves today. Although it's mainly there for backward compatibility with the oldest hardware, if reports and studies are accurate, a significant percentage of WLANs operating today (especially those used in homes) are still using outdated and insecure WEP for their encryption.

Widespread use of WEP is almost understandable given that to the layperson, the similar abbreviations WEP and WPA don't convey any meaningful difference between the two security methods (and they may even imply equivalence) Plus, WEP is almost always presented first by the security interface of most broadband routers since WEP comes before WPA both historically and alphabetically).

Even if your router is several years old, it almost certainly supports some form of WPA (and if it doesn't, upgrading to the latest firmware may fix that). The easiest-to-use and most widely supported version is WPA Personal, sometimes referred to as WPA Pre-Shared Key (PSK).

To encrypt a network with WPA Personal/PSK you provide your router not with an encryption key, but rather with a plain-English passphrase between 8 and 63 characters long. Using a technology called TKIP (for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol), that passphrase, along with the network SSID, is used to generate unique encryption keys for each wireless client. And those encryption keys are constantly changed. (Although WEP also supports passphrases, it does so only as a way to more easily create static keys, which are usually comprised of the hex characters 0-9 and A-F).

Properly configured, WPA offers you infinitely better protection than WEP, but this isn't to say that WPA security is iron-clad, because let's face it, what form of security really is? With that in mind, avoiding dictionary words in both the SSID and WPA passphrase (and having as long a passphrase as possible) will provide a lot better protection than using "linksys" and your dog's name.

Good Luck.

Answer 6

Go in to the advanced settings and make it so you enter the MAC address of each computer attempting to use the wireless. Goggle "How to find the mac address of your computer" if your unfamiliar with it

Answer 7

Two ways, first put some security on it!! like WEP or Mac encryption.

Or better still, change the name of your SSID and make it invisible.

This will mean he can't connect using his old settings and would have to know your SSID name.. and password before he could even attempt to get on.

Tell him to buy his own... or better still goto mywifizone.com and set up a hotspot so he has to pay for it!!! comes with it's own encryption too!

Good luck!