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.
Need some technical advice--
Feb 01, 2006
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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]
Anybody know where to find the DHCP client list on a Linksys WRT54G?
Anybody know where to find the DHCP client list on a Linksys WRT54G?
What page of the manual is confusing to you?
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.
Status page, LocalNetwork tab, click on the ClientList button.
Thanks, I poked around endlessly and missing that.
Thank you for the perceptive and useful response.
If it were my own router, perhaps your reply would have been helpful. No, I guess it wouldn't have.
...and I guess going to the vendor's web site and downloading and reading it was too difficult?
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