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From: Mark on 1 Feb 2006 13:05
Is there anyway I can see if someone is 'piggybacking' on my wifi?
Sometimes I notice that although connection indicates 54Mbps, my
uploads are considerably slower(web pages take longer to load, surfing
is slower) at certain periods of the day?
If there is some way to detect this with or without installing a
program, please give instructions.
Thanks.

From: William P.N. Smith on 1 Feb 2006 15:16
"Mark" <gogetitnow2005(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>Is there anyway I can see if someone is 'piggybacking' on my wifi?

You can look in the router for the DHCP clients list and see if
there's anyone there, but your best bet is toturn on WPA security and
set a non-dictionary passphrase as key. Then you'll know no-one else
is using your WiFi.

[Other reasons for slowdown are interference, ISP overload, malware,
etc]
From: riggor99999 on 1 Feb 2006 20:05

"Dave Rudisill" <denali(a)alaska.net> wrote in message
news:d8a2u11mtme2g7qjf2hdsqt9bh4voprl2d(a)4ax.com...
> >William P.N. Smith <news2006a(a)compusmiths.com> wrote:
>
>>"Mark" <gogetitnow2005(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>Is there anyway I can see if someone is 'piggybacking' on my wifi?
>>
>>You can look in the router for the DHCP clients list and see if
>>there's anyone there, but your best bet is toturn on WPA security and
>>set a non-dictionary passphrase as key. Then you'll know no-one else
>>is using your WiFi.
>>
>
> Anybody know where to find the DHCP client list on a Linksys WRT54G?
>
> --
> Dave

What page of the manual is confusing to you?


From: William P.N. Smith on 1 Feb 2006 21:13
Dave Rudisill <denali(a)alaska.net> wrote:
>Anybody know where to find the DHCP client list on a Linksys WRT54G?

Not off the top of my head, but there are a couple of buttons in the
menus that show the DHCP Clients. Do some poking around.
From: Bob Willard on 1 Feb 2006 22:16
Dave Rudisill wrote:

>>William P.N. Smith <news2006a(a)compusmiths.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>
>
>
>>"Mark" <gogetitnow2005(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is there anyway I can see if someone is 'piggybacking' on my wifi?
>>>
>>>
>>You can look in the router for the DHCP clients list and see if
>>there's anyone there, but your best bet is toturn on WPA security and
>>set a non-dictionary passphrase as key. Then you'll know no-one else
>>is using your WiFi.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Anybody know where to find the DHCP client list on a Linksys WRT54G?
>
>
>
Status page, LocalNetwork tab, click on the ClientList button.

--
Cheers, Bob
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