Is someone using my wireless?

[Quarterquack]

What if they use cloud cracking services? For a small fee they put an array of powerful servers to work on your captured WPA handshakes. One of them claims it can break most passwords in 20 minutes or less.

1) It doesn't matter how powerful a computer you have behind a brute force attack if the bottleneck is on your side of things.
2) I'll take up their challenge. I'll even let them try and crack one of my easier passwords.

Also, my WPA2 password is 64 characters long. Anything less and you're playing amateur league.

[anon]

how do i check the log connections on the router.

Open the default gateway's IP in your browser. That usually lets you access its Web interface (having logged in first), which in turn should let you check who's connected somewhere.

IF I am using someone's wifi signal and downloading,will the owner of the connection know that i am using

They can do as above and see you're online. Most people won't check if you aren't stupid and download heavy stuff at full speed or change the router's configuration, for example. Personally, I see nothing wrong with using someone else's Wi-Fi as long as you don't affect the owner negatively.

If i do manage to get his wifi can i log into his system if so can anyone explain.

That depends on a variety of factors I won't go into since hacking discussions are forbidden by FST's rules.

2) I'll take up their challenge. I'll even let them try and crack one of my easier passwords.

Okies. Won't give links, but it's the first result in Google for the query "wpa cracker".

[Expeto]

If i do manage to get his wifi can i log into his system

hmm, I think you cannot... but someone else might

1) It doesn't matter how powerful a computer you have behind a brute force attack if the bottleneck is on your side of things.

what bottle neck? there is no bottleneck at the wpa cracking

Also, my WPA2 password is 64 characters long. Anything less and you're playing amateur league.

that sounds practical

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How Can I Find Out If Someone’s Stealing My Wi-Fi?

[Quarterquack]

1) It doesn't matter how powerful a computer you have behind a brute force attack if the bottleneck is on your side of things.

what bottle neck? there is no bottleneck at the wpa cracking

Also, my WPA2 password is 64 characters long. Anything less and you're playing amateur league.

that sounds practical

Actually, there are multiple ways to stop a brute force attack about 2-3 passwords checks in (especially on wireless networks), but you know, if you can't find them on your own then it's pointless explaining them.

I do actually have a 64 character long WPA2 password, but I mostly have it as a running joke with friends who come over to my place for a LAN party or such. They're always annoyed by how much they have to type. I find it hilarious. There's no (sane) reason to have such a long password when an 8-10 character long password can do a job just as well.

[Aviera]

Just to be safe you can isolate the wireless network from wired users too...

[iLOVENZB]

thank you. I have changed it to a 12 character password using a password generator. We will see what happens.

lolwhat?

[bonjasky]

Modify you wireless in hide status.

[rdtphd]

i would doubt someone has hacked ur wireless. u say u use wpa so they mostly likely didnt hack the password unless you have a keylogger. the other way that i know of takes a little more skill but bypasses the wpa security all together. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stnJiPBIM6o

[anon]

u say u use wpa so they mostly likely didnt hack the password unless you have a keylogger.

If the password is weak, WPA can be cracked in relatively little time using dictionary or bruteforce attacks.