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POLL: Do You Allow Neighbors to Access Your Wi-Fi Home Network?

By , About.com GuideDecember 7, 2008

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Some people open up their wireless home network to share with neighbors despite the obvious security risks. Two years ago when we polled our audience, about 50% of the respondents indicated they had logged into their neighbor's Wi-Fi at least once! No doubt some of those visits were made without the owner's knowledge. Do you actually allow this kind of access into your home network?
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December 16, 2008 at 1:42 pm
(1) Chris Richardson :

76% may think they never share but in reality most people share without their knowledge since they usually set the security so easy to bypass.

December 16, 2008 at 2:06 pm
(2) Noman McNamara :

I upgraded my wireless DSL modem/router from one that only supported WEP to one that supports WPA+ to stop wireless intrusion and wireless service theft.

December 17, 2008 at 10:25 am
(3) chris :

how do i know if a neighbor is sharing my wireless modem?
i have verizon dsl with the westell 327w versalink.
is there someway of detecting if someone is using it without my knowledge?

October 31, 2011 at 12:04 pm
(4) Simon :

Chris can logon to his wireless router and check the DHCP clients page to see if he can spot any machine names that he doesn’t know about.

Or set up good security, change password and restart the router to kick em out.

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