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How To: Find out if someone is stealing your Wi-Fi

2012-04-03
hey guys I'm Sharon Vaknin christina and hacking a Wi-Fi network is a lot easier than it sounds all hacker needs is a few minutes of their time and you would never know someone was taking a free ride on your Wi-Fi if your connection is consistently slow you might guess that someone is stealing your Internet but today I'll show you how to find out for sure with wireless network watcher you can get notified each time someone logs on to your Wi-Fi network to get started download and install wireless network watcher from download com once it's installed launch it click options and then select beep on new device and background scan this way you'll be notified each time someone logs onto your network with a loud beep back in the main screen of the application press the play button or hit f5 and the program will begin scanning for devices on the network now if someone like my colleague Lynn lahir connects to my Wi-Fi network wireless network watcher will alert me that she's connected with a loud ding it should work automatically but if nothing happens head to options then Advanced Options check the box here at the top and select your network card from the drop-down list below if wireless network watcher helps you realize someone is stealing your internet connection the first step would be to change your password not only are they eating up your bandwidth but they could also potentially access your personal data if you have any questions send me a tweet on Twitter and follow my facebook page for more tips like this for Signet comm I'm Sharon Vaknin you
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