How to know if someone is stealing your Wi-Fi

We all love to steal our neighbor’s Wi-Fi Internet, but if you’re that neighbor you wouldn’t be too happy about that. Hacking a Wi-Fi router is getting easier as there are many free tools available for that purpose. You never know when someone might have hacked into your home connection consuming all your precious bandwidth. For that we have certain software but basically you just need a browser to find out who is the one stealing Wi-Fi.
First you will need to know your router’s IP address and login details which is usually written under the router. If you don’t see it there Google your router’s model and you will find it. Most of the time the IP address is from one of the following:

We all love to steal our neighbor’s Wi-Fi Internet, but if you’re that neighbor you wouldn’t be too happy about that. Hacking a Wi-Fi router is getting easier as there are many free tools available for that purpose. You never know when someone might have hacked into your home connection consuming all your precious bandwidth. For that we have certain software but basically you just need a browser to find out who is the one stealing Wi-Fi.
First you will need to know your router’s IP address and login details which is usually written under the router. If you don’t see it there Google your router’s model and you will find it. Most of the time the IP address is from one of the following:

192.168.1.1

 192.168.0.1

Now type your router’s IP address in the location bar of your browser and a dialog box will appear asking a username and password. If you haven’t changed the default values these will most likely be one from the following:

username: admin

 

Password is usually one from the following:

password: admin

password: (empty)

password: password

After login go to Wireless->Wireless Statistics. You will see a list of devices currently connected to your router.

 

After that go to DHCP->DHCP Clients List and you will see the devices who have asked for a dynamic IP address from your router along with their MAC addresses and device names. However you won’t be seeing any devices under this menu if you opted for static IP addresses instead of DHCP.

You can then match the MAC addresses with the device names shown here and look for anything suspicious. In that case you need to tighten up your router’s security to stop anyone from stealing Wi-Fi Internet of your house.