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[hoj]

I have a wireless router with a small network of 3 x PCs in my home.
I pay Virgin £18 a month for the service.
How do i find out if anyone nearby are connecting to the net free of charge via my wireless connection.
Only reason i ask is that on doing a search for connections i could use to connect to the net it just came up with mine (belkin)

[Ian_D]

Just set a password on your router to stop other people using it.

Look in the manual for WEP or WPA. 

[Andy B]

I have a wireless router with a small network of 3 x PCs in my home.
I pay Virgin £18 a month for the service.
How do i find out if anyone nearby are connecting to the net free of charge via my wireless connection.
Only reason i ask is that on doing a search for connections i could use to connect to the net it just came up with mine (belkin)

I can generally see other networks (various neighbours) from my PC but it does ask for passwords if I attempt to connect to them. 

[Darth Loo-knee]

I have a wireless router with a small network of 3 x PCs in my home.
I pay Virgin £18 a month for the service.
How do i find out if anyone nearby are connecting to the net free of charge via my wireless connection.
Only reason i ask is that on doing a search for connections i could use to connect to the net it just came up with mine (belkin)

It would be a waste of time me trying to tell you mate, I had broadband but was not connected to mine.... so God knows how long I was connected to nextdoor if I had known I would have cancelled mine

[Andy B]

I have a wireless router with a small network of 3 x PCs in my home.
I pay Virgin £18 a month for the service.
How do i find out if anyone nearby are connecting to the net free of charge via my wireless connection.
Only reason i ask is that on doing a search for connections i could use to connect to the net it just came up with mine (belkin)

It would be a waste of time me trying to tell you mate, I had broadband but was not connected to mine.... so God knows how long I was connected to nextdoor if I had known I would have cancelled mine

            

[CaptainZok]

I have a wireless router with a small network of 3 x PCs in my home.
I pay Virgin £18 a month for the service.
How do i find out if anyone nearby are connecting to the net free of charge via my wireless connection.
Only reason i ask is that on doing a search for connections i could use to connect to the net it just came up with mine (belkin)

It would be a waste of time me trying to tell you mate, I had broadband but was not connected to mine.... so God knows how long I was connected to nextdoor if I had known I would have cancelled mine

Pity he wouldn't give you your printing mate, you would have been fine then. 

[dbug]

Just set a password on your router to stop other people using it.

Look in the manual for WEP or WPA. 

Go for WPA - I can crack WEP passwords in a few minutes!!

[nick v6]

1 way you can tel if some one is using your wireless connection is to have a look out the window for a parked car with someone sitting with a laptop on there laps

[Plomien]

login into the router and change/add a password either on wpa or wpa2
select your router here and follow the instructions on how to set it up http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?Section_Id=204037

[hoj]

Ah cheers plomien will try that

[tunnie]

1 way you can tel if some one is using your wireless connection is to have a look out the window for a parked car with someone sitting with a laptop on there laps

That won't work in a block of flats, where people around you can use your internet.

Thats generally where most people pinch internet, our router does not really have the power to stretch the 50/60 feet to the road from my house.

[Dishevelled Den]

Why not just stick with wired systems - inviting even more RF inside the home, especially when it's in such close proximity, can't be a good thing, can it? :-/ :-/ :-/

[Chris_H]

Why not just stick with wired systems - inviting even more RF inside the home, especially when it's in such close proximity, can't be a good thing, can it? :-/ :-/ :-/

Ahhh.  A man after my own heart!  Wifi at home is largely a marketing thing to sell kit.  You will always get faster, more reliable, more secure networking over cable.

Sales of nice long masonry drills would have to soar though.  I've now got a 500mmx12mm for going through walls.

[Dishevelled Den]

Why not just stick with wired systems - inviting even more RF inside the home, especially when it's in such close proximity, can't be a good thing, can it? :-/ :-/ :-/

Ahhh.  A man after my own heart!  Wifi at home is largely a marketing thing to sell kit.  You will always get faster, more reliable, more secure networking over cable.

Sales of nice long masonry drills would have to soar though.  I've now got a 500mmx12mm for going through walls.

...now you're talking Chris

[TheBoy]

I have a wireless router with a small network of 3 x PCs in my home.
I pay Virgin £18 a month for the service.
How do i find out if anyone nearby are connecting to the net free of charge via my wireless connection.
Only reason i ask is that on doing a search for connections i could use to connect to the net it just came up with mine (belkin)

I can generally see other networks (various neighbours) from my PC but it does ask for passwords if I attempt to connect to them. 

I can currently see 14 Wireless Access points, 2 of which apparently unsecured....