Wireless Hackers?

[John]

I'm running XP Home SP3, with a Linksys wireless router using WPA/WPA2. How
can I monitor usage of my wireless connection, to determine whether someone
else is tapping into my wireless connection without my knowledge?
--
John

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

[We saw your first post.]

John wrote:
> I'm running XP Home SP3, with a Linksys wireless router using WPA/WPA2.
> How
> can I monitor usage of my wireless connection, to determine whether
> someone
> else is tapping into my wireless connection without my knowledge?

 

[TekNET]

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> [We saw your first post.]
>
> John wrote:
>> I'm running XP Home SP3, with a Linksys wireless router using
>> WPA/WPA2. How
>> can I monitor usage of my wireless connection, to determine whether
>> someone
>> else is tapping into my wireless connection without my knowledge?
>

Hi,

I don´t a expert in security, but my suggestion is based in too factors:

First in the LINKSYS admin console you can limited the number of
connection by wireless, and in this console you can see the number of
machine connected to you router.

Another possibility is using WireShark and view that request you router
have and active connection.

I hope give some help.

TekNET.pt

 

[John]

Sorry about the second posting. I didn't see my first posting show up in
this newsgroup, so I thought I 'misfired' when I sent it. Did the first
posting go into a different newsgroup?
--
John


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> [We saw your first post.]
>
> John wrote:
> > I'm running XP Home SP3, with a Linksys wireless router using WPA/WPA2.
> > How
> > can I monitor usage of my wireless connection, to determine whether
> > someone
> > else is tapping into my wireless connection without my knowledge?
>
>

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

no

John wrote:
> Sorry about the second posting. I didn't see my first posting show up in
> this newsgroup, so I thought I 'misfired' when I sent it. Did the first
> posting go into a different newsgroup?
>
>> [We saw your first post.]
>>
>> John wrote:
>>> I'm running XP Home SP3, with a Linksys wireless router using WPA/WPA2.
>>> How
>>> can I monitor usage of my wireless connection, to determine whether
>>> someone
>>> else is tapping into my wireless connection without my knowledge?

 

[S. Pidgorny]

I would log on to the Linksys management interface and see if there are more
clients associated than you know, for starters. I assume WPA2 security is
enabled already.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

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"John" <jREMOVEcmcf@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
news:237D2317-A604-443B-8A5A-321721075331@microsoft.com...
> I'm running XP Home SP3, with a Linksys wireless router using WPA/WPA2.
> How
> can I monitor usage of my wireless connection, to determine whether
> someone
> else is tapping into my wireless connection without my knowledge?
> --
> John