Neighbours mooching off my wi-fi

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perthguy

Just found out my neighbours have been mooching off my wi-fi for 2 months, using up my bandwidth. Now I would not have much sympathy for such a story because I know too many people run unsecured networks. However, I have my encryption set up which means my modem was properly hacked, not just casually connected to. My network authentication is mixed WPA2/WPA -PSK and the WPA/WAPI Encryption is set to TKIP+AES. The problem is my WPA/WAPI passphrase, while complex, was too short (my fault, long story).

I'm annoyed at myself for not setting my WPA/WAPI passphrase back to 63 characters like it was and I am annoyed that the little <language removed> next door for hacking my encrypted network and stealing my bandwidth.

My punishment for being stupid is that my downloads will be throttled for the next 5 days. Back to the glorious days of dial up speeds :mad:

I don't think it is very neighbourly to hack your neighbours wi-fi and use up their download limit! Not very neighbourly at all!
 
First, 1.6GB of downloads while no one was home and the computers were off.

I looked in the DCHP lease table on my modem and saw x-box (I don't have one), PCs with names unlike any on my network and android (I don't have any). I have their mac addresses, so they weren't very bright. That is proof they hacked my modem :mad:
 
Does this mean that even though I have my internet connection locked, someone could still get into it?

That's really shameful - friend of mine had a huge water bill last month and caught the builder next door connected to her water supply - busted him big time in the act ... he pretended he couldn't speak English.

Go put a hose through their front window.
 
I'd let the parents know (assuming he is living with his parents) or let him know if he is there and is an adult that you know he hacked it.

At least he might feel less smug.
 
wylie said:
I'd let the parents know (assuming he is living with his parents) or let him know if he is there and is an adult that you know he hacked it.

At least he might feel less smug.
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It's a young couple who work security at Crown Casino. I bet with no internet they are already feeling less smug.
 
If your feeling really nasty its unauthorised access to a network given that it was secured. Assuming you can provide adequate proof of who did it I know police in the past have followed up on it.
 
RyanJD said:
Change the name of your SSID and turn off its visibility.
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Ya, if you don't want people to connect it, don't publicly broadcast it.

Doovalacky said:
If your feeling really nasty its unauthorised access to a network given that it was secured. Assuming you can provide adequate proof of who did it I know police in the past have followed up on it.
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I doubt it in a residential scenario, they'd just call you a noob for publicly broadcasting a 'secured' network.
 
dtraeger said:
Ya, if you don't want people to connect it, don't publicly broadcast it.
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Settle down. New modem and I missed the "Hide SSID" setting. Its like saying if you don't want someone to break into your house, make sure it's not visible from the street. It's not like it wasn't locked. It was. My neighbour broke in.

If he broke into my locked house and stole my stuff, that's bad, but if he hacks my network and steals my downloads that's ok because I should have know the right settings in my modem?

Hide SSID is now enabled... :p
 
And now my laptop won't connect to the network. I put in all the new settings but... nada. That's great. My network is now so secure that even I can't use it. Fantastic. :mad:
 
Even if they downloaded illegal content it would only show up on the hackers computer as being viewed content... right?

Our neighbour did some work on our modem some time ago and now every time we use up more download than we think we've used we think he's tapped into it... not to mention water and electricity when that seems excessive.

Paranoid? He's recently been busted for stealing water and electricity, and we've caught him out on some doozy lies a few times.

Frequently creeps around at night peering over our fence to see what we're doing, and we think he may have killed our cat... but that's another story.

This is a guy on 160K - around 260K when he did his crimes and before his wife left him.
 
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