Help with hacking a wireless network?

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Darkhorse

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OK I am Joking :)

Our wireless at home has been getting hacked. Someone is stealing our bandwith. I can see the wireless light on the modem flashing when we are not downloading/uploading anything.

So i don't want to know how to solve this problem, i think we have found a solution......don't use wireless :)

I want to find out how I can find the person doing it.
There must b some software to see were the connection is coming from?
How far away must someone b to hack us?
There is only one other wireless connection in our area.
Thanks
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You're router should give you the IP they are connecting through, so just use it and get some script kiddy tool to flood him to death or something...
 
Darkhorse said:
I can see the wireless light on the modem flashing when we are not downloading/uploading anything.
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The wireless light flashes if a computer is connected...not only when a computer is downloading.

Just makes sure WPA is enabled and you should be pretty much home-free.
 
Your router should display the MAC-address connecting -- just compare all MAC-addresses to the ones you should have. It will be difficult to pick up who the culprit is. I once had a similar problem, installed a transparent proxy behind the router, and then logged all HTTP-traffic - was then eventually able to track the guy to an XBOX-forum.

Instead of tracking the person, rather:
- Change your router password
- Change your SSID
- Enable MAC-address filtering,
- Enable WPA2-PSK and change your WPA2-password
- Change your router IP-range (i.e. to 172.16.0.1, NM 255.255.0.0)
- Disable SSID broadcast
 
You could always set your router to bridge mode and set up the pppoe conections from each machine, he would then not have access to the net.
 
If one can disable dhcp on the router & put custom ip (different to the router-default ip).. will that also help..!

will someone with the wireless-name/key be able to connect without manually assigning IP on wireless-network-connection...???
 
Metse said:
If one can disable dhcp on the router & put custom ip (different to the router-default ip).. will that also help..!

will someone with the wireless-name/key be able to connect without manually assigning IP on wireless-network-connection...???
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he could just change the settings on his side and manually assign himself an IP, so I dont think that would work, the MAC address idea is good, the password idea is good and obviously the switching the router to bridge-mode is also good :D
 
Never use wep. I managed to hack my own 128bit key in a single night.
 
hoegh said:
he could just change the settings on his side and manually assign himself an IP, so I dont think that would work, the MAC address idea is good, the password idea is good and obviously the switching the router to bridge-mode is also good :D
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Disabling the DHCP and assigning static IP's will also help.

The intruder will be able to see the network but when he connects the connection will timeout after a while.

If he enters his own IP address it will still not matter because the subnets, gateways will be different and he wont be able to do anything.

Dnt know about software to check where he is though.... Sorry.
 
hoegh said:
he could just change the settings on his side and manually assign himself an IP, so I dont think that would work, the MAC address idea is good, the password idea is good and obviously the switching the router to bridge-mode is also good :D
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If he makes it an arbitrary IP range and gateway address with DHCP disabled it'll go quite a ways to protecting his network. I know i'd make it something like 192.168.127.0-x with gateway as 111 for instance

Just remember to use an IP within the non-internet IP ranges ( 10.0. and 192.168. )

Good luck assigning and scanning your PC with each IP range hoping to find my gateway. After working out my WPA key. And my network name. After faking a MAC address on my network

*Disabled - stupid me
 
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I hear your comment with respect to WEP. I am trying to set a network with two billion routers in a WDS configuration. This will only accept WEP and not WPA or WPA2 (which is what I'm using at present). The reason given is something to do with WDS standard and encryption of MAC address. Any ideas or comment. Thanks
 
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TonyA said:
I hear your comment with respect to WEP. I am trying to set a network with two billion routers in a WDS configuration. This will only accept WEP and not WPA or WPA2 (which is what I'm using at present). The reason given is something to do with WDS standard and encryption of MAC address. Any ideas or comment. Thanks
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Sheet bra! Thats a lot of routers!
 
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