Is your WiFi running extremely slower than your expectations while you have high internet speed connection? Then you must check your WiFI connection there might be chances of your wi-fi being stolen by any hacker. But the question is how to know who is stealing your wi-fi? How to detect and catch if someone is stealing your data? After getting that hacker how to block him to stealing your WiFi? There are number of ways by following those methods you can easily stop such kind of activity. But what? If you are not an expert? So this article will help you to know who else is connected except you and stealing your data in easy methods without any costly software.
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This method
is the simplest method ever I used. For getting all the devices list that are
connected with your WiFi, just follow the simple method
Step 1. Log in to your router
by typing router’s IP address directly into your browser address bar. It may be 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 or it may be written on router itself.
If still you are unable to get that just contact your internet service
provider, they will provide you details.
One another
method to know your default gateway is that open Command prompt by typing
cmd in the search box in Start
Menu. A small pop up will appear, here just type ipconfig and hit enter. Here you will get the
IP address of default gateway just copy it and paste it into your browser’s
address bar.
Step 2. It
will ask you to enter your credentials so enter your login id and press enter,
If you havn’t remembered that just check your router’s documentation itself
unless changed by you.
Step
3. In the “Status” tab you will find the list of devices which are
connected to your Router. You may get it under Lan
Computers or Current Connected Wireless Clients. It depends upon the
firmware of your Router. In General, it is a list with device names, Mac
addresses and IP addresses.
Step 4.
Just check the list of connected devices from here, if you found any suspicious
just mark that and block that device.
That’s it.
Now you’ll get your speed again.
Now do some
changes in your WiFi modem to secure from hackers next time.
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How to Secure Your Wi-Fi Router
Below
are some basic settings by following those you may secure your internet
connection.
1- Change your router’s default password
by following the above.
2- You must enable Network
Encryption methods for wireless settings like WPA (WPA-Personal) or WPA2. You
can use WEP but it’s not much secure.
3- Hide your SSD name or just change it
to the difficult SSID name.
4- Use MAC filtering rather than IP
filtering because IP can change easily by refreshing the connections.
Hope you are feeling some fresh
internet speed. So this was the basic tips to know how to detect if someone is
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