Tips To Prevent People From Stealing Your Wi-Fi Network

How do you feel if you come to know that your neighbors are surfing internet by stealing your wi-fi network??? Ohhh..it likely kills us.. rite?? lol :p . So i m here to let you know some tips to prevent your neighbors from stealing your wi-fi Network. These tips are very simple.

How do you know if someone is using your WI-fi network?

If you would like to confirm whether an outsider is using your wireless home network, here’s a trick. First enter the router’s IP address in the browser’s address bar. Then open the DHCP Client Table (it is under Status –> Local Network –> DHCP Server for Linksys routers). This shows a list of all devices connected to your wireless network including those of strangers.

Now Here Are Some Tips To Secure Your Wi-Fi Network

• Set up a password for your Wi-Fi Network- Open your router’s admin dashboard and set the wireless security mode to either WPA, WPA2 or WEP (use WPA2-mixed if possible). Now people would have to know the password before they can join your Wi-Fi network.

• Must Use MAC Address filtering- Go to your router’s dashboard and under the Wireless Mac Filter section, add the MAC addresses of all your known devices so that only whitelisted devices can access your wireless Internet.

• You may rename your Wi-Fi name to something scary like - c:\virus.exe, other, Network Servece unavailable etxc. so that your neighbor less likely to connect with your w-fi .

If you have any question or problem, then you may ask us in comment. :)