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"Abbigail" hath wroth:

The software used is highly dependent on the make and model of your wireless router, which you didn't supply. Most rely upon the router to generate SNMP traps. See:

examples.

There are also traffic sniffers. These watch the traffic in and out of your wireless, usually between your broadband modem and your router. If something new appears, they will detect it. For example:

are also commercial IDS (intrusion detection systems). Most are not free, but you can probably bludgeon Arpwatch into some form of IDS by detecting new IP addresses. you have an integrated modem/router/wireless box, a sniffer will NOT work because there's no place to sniff traffic. With a sniffer, you will also need to use a hub, not a switch to sniff the traffic.

If your wireless router supports SNMP, various MIB browses and SNMP monitoring tools can be used to count connections. I use MRTG or RRDTool to graph the traffic and number of connections.

are lots (and lots) of free SNMP monitoring tools available:

Jeff Liebermann hath wroth:

Ooops. I forgot about Syslog monitors. Link Logger uses Syslog, not SNMP traps. Other free syslog monitors are:

(free version) More of the same: with SNMP, the router or wireless access point needs to support syslog.

Turn on WPA with a non-trivial passphrase, and be assured that they aren't accessing it.

Hi,

How would I be able to tell, if the neighbours where accessing my wireless connection, I would assume that the connection would be slower, however is it possible to tell if someone of accessing my wireless connection, is there any free software to download which could monitor this?

Regards,

If he can access your WiFi, he can break into your LAN computers and steal your {identity, credit card numbers, passwords, money}. Other than that, no problems at all. Oh, wait, even an unsophisticated user can give you viruses and other malware.

Airsnare and it's free.

You probably wouldn't notice the speed depending on what they were doing.

Have you configured any security whatsoever? MAC filtering is not considered security.

David.

What's your upstream speed and what happens to your downstream speed if your upstream is saturated? If you haven't tried it, do so then you will have answered your own question.

That's just one reason why you might care.

David.

Do you have a good solicitor?

You may find that you have the responsibility for any criminal activity that takes place on that network, whether it be launching a hack attack or downloading illegal pornography.

Although I do have to say that the sentence which states "the owner is ultimately responsible" could still be subject to legal attack.

Does it also therefore follow that if you leave your car unlocked and it is stolen and used for illegal purposes that the original owner is responsible for the actions that follow?

It's a weak accusation on from the CPS at best but as ever, unless properly tested, quotes like that will remain.

David.

Not necessarily.

David.

If a car is "taken" it is no longer possible for the owner to control it's use whereas the "network" is still under the control of it's owner and he can control it's use, wonderful things on/off switches.

If he knows that his network has been taken. At what point does every purchaser of a home wireless box have to become fully IT trained?

What about the use of their malware infected machine for other crime purposes that aren't even related to wireless? Is the home user "responsible" because they didn't buy antivirus/malware products or regularly patch their machine?

I understand where you're coming from, I just think that it's unreasonable to expect everyone to act in the manner which the CPS seem to think is suitable. It's just not going to happen.

This is the fundamental principle of "reasonable doubt" though I don't think that it would exist for a prior kiddie p*rn offender to try that claim to doubt when caught again. As ever, it all depends on the quality (and cost) of ones legal defence.

David.

I've been using Wi-Fi defense for a while. You can find it here:

Good luck....

I haven't had any neighbors try and log on but that may be due to the fact that I don't broadcast my SSID, have MAC filtering enabled and use WPA security.

When I have family and friends over who try and log-on using their laptops the program immediately notifies me of the attempt. It then allows me to tag them as friend or foe.

The program also allows me to use the routers built-in security to deny any traffic not tagged as friendly or pre-approved.

In the while you have been using this software,has it detected any of your neighbours accessing your wi-fi connection?

Sounds good,thanks.