Comments on: How To Tell If Someone Is On Your Wireless Home Network http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html Computer - Internet - Technology Tips And Tutorials Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: upthereinthesky http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-22305 upthereinthesky Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:51:45 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-22305 @<a href="#comment-22304" rel="nofollow">upthereinthesky</a>: P.S. MAC Address Filtering will be sufficient to keep out the good guys. @upthereinthesky: P.S. MAC Address Filtering will be sufficient to keep out the good guys.

]]> By: upthereinthesky http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-22304 upthereinthesky Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:49:41 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-22304 @<a href="#comment-22105" rel="nofollow">Jimmy</a>: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that MAC address filtering is not a secure procedure. MAC address cloning is a trivial procedure, and built into the router firmware. WPA2 encryption with a complex, non-dictionary password is your best bet. The only known successful attack against WPA2 is a brute-force attack. Possibly using rainbow tables, or pre-computed hash tables. Nice article. Thank you. @Jimmy: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that MAC address filtering is not a secure procedure. MAC address cloning is a trivial procedure, and built into the router firmware. WPA2 encryption with a complex, non-dictionary password is your best bet. The only known successful attack against WPA2 is a brute-force attack. Possibly using rainbow tables, or pre-computed hash tables.

Nice article. Thank you.

]]> By: Jimmy http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-22105 Jimmy Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:37:18 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-22105 I can't imagine a situation where a hacker would want into the wifi network at my apartment so badly that a MAC whitelist wouldn't be sufficient security. I can't imagine a situation where a hacker would want into the wifi network at my apartment so badly that a MAC whitelist wouldn't be sufficient security.

]]> By: azhar ali buttar http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21477 azhar ali buttar Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:10:25 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21477 One more thing that a network administrator to do in this regard, just to be more careful to use a wireless router for local network. Use a secure DHCP serber with MAC address security. Here is a post at itoperationz.com blog to secure the DHCP server; http://www.itoperationz.com/2009/09/how-to-secure-a-dhcp-server-in-windows/ One more thing that a network administrator to do in this regard, just to be more careful to use a wireless router for local network. Use a secure DHCP serber with MAC address security. Here is a post at itoperationz.com blog to secure the DHCP server;
http://www.itoperationz.com/2009/09/how-to-secure-a-dhcp-server-in-windows/

]]> By: azhar ali buttar http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21476 azhar ali buttar Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:07:41 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21476 Nice Work, I really appreciate your work, I am too a IT guy and I surely look for something like this. Nice Work, I really appreciate your work, I am too a IT guy and I surely look for something like this.

]]> By: Juan Timaná http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21456 Juan Timaná Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:30:02 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21456 You also can use Mac Address Filtering and add only the Mac Addresses that you know, like your laptop's mac, your phone's mac, etc. This is good because it will be a pain in the butt for someone to simply guess your devices Mac Addresses. Mac filtering combined with WPA/WPA2 is a good method to prevent someone to mess up with your wireless home network. (sorry for my English) You also can use Mac Address Filtering and add only the Mac Addresses that you know, like your laptop's mac, your phone's mac, etc. This is good because it will be a pain in the butt for someone to simply guess your devices Mac Addresses. Mac filtering combined with WPA/WPA2 is a good method to prevent someone to mess up with your wireless home network. (sorry for my English)

]]> By: Raw Hawk http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21450 Raw Hawk Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:20:09 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21450 theres one way to help mac users, and its simpler than sumo or DOS. what may that be you ask? Its Windows 7! yay 7, with zero BSoD, zero calories, zero problems. :) theres one way to help mac users, and its simpler than sumo or DOS. what may that be you ask? Its Windows 7! yay 7, with zero BSoD, zero calories, zero problems. :)

]]> By: not a newb, just not a network engineer http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21407 not a newb, just not a network engineer Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:04:38 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21407 This was a tad confusing. I just wish there was one mac software application that would do all of this in one place. This was a tad confusing. I just wish there was one mac software application that would do all of this in one place.

]]> By: Igor948 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21303 Igor948 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:50:05 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-if-someone-is-on-your-wireless-home-network.html#comment-21303 Good article. I always advise people to either use static IP addresses in their home networks since there are not usually that many devices to maintain. If you do not want to take this approach, I would suggest that you use a subnet mask to limit the number of DHCP addresses allocated. (255.255.255.240 allows 14 usable addresses, or 255.255.255.224 allows 30 usable addresses). Most home routers will also allow you to limit the amount of DHCP addresses listed without changing the subnet mask. Good article. I always advise people to either use static IP addresses in their home networks since there are not usually that many devices to maintain. If you do not want to take this approach, I would suggest that you use a subnet mask to limit the number of DHCP addresses allocated. (255.255.255.240 allows 14 usable addresses, or 255.255.255.224 allows 30 usable addresses). Most home routers will also allow you to limit the amount of DHCP addresses listed without changing the subnet mask.

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