how to get rid of wifi mooches

[Scenic]

Re: how to get rid of wifi mooches

Anyone that really wants to get in can spoof their MAC address, so that is not a real protection.

the attacker would have to find out a MAC address that's allowed by the router though..
works pretty well to keep most of the nosey ppl out..

[tmwalsh]

Re: how to get rid of wifi mooches

You can stop advertising the SSID, but it is buried in the packets you send and receive...

Anyone that really wants to get in can spoof their MAC address, so that is not a real protection.

Given the noobieness of Prettygirl, I'd turn on WEP and see what happened. If you don't have any encryption not, what will it hurt? Unless you are in an area with a lot of networks, who will be looking at your WEP packets?
I am just reporting what I read on an old Microsoft web page written by one of their programmers.
tom

[lmcancu]

Re: how to get rid of wifi mooches

Change and then stop advertising the SSID. There's usually an option to turn that off in the Router/AP.

[japlytic]

Re: how to get rid of wifi mooches

MAC address filtering keeps out all but the most determined intruders.
Some B-only clients can support WPA with a firmware and/or a driver and utility update.
I still wonder why the DS does not support WPA: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10188

[Scenic]

Re: how to get rid of wifi mooches

MAC Address filters are handy for this (if the router supports it).

i've only got WEP encryption on my wifi, but the MAC filter is also active, so wifi effectively only works for the MAC addresses i've specified in the router config

[ratdude747]

problem: I just found some b*stard with a pc called prettygirl is mooching wifi.

I want to somehow block them from my network.

the obvious answer is wifi password, but here is the bug:

a have one computer with a wireless b card and another that might get one. the second is a 1st gen emac, so the only option is b, killing off any WPA.

i heard WEP is hacker bait... mooches are better than hackers...

are there any other choices?

the person is a noob... there workgroup is set to MSHOME... I only found it by trying to find my latest built (it happens to have the wireless b card) and noticed the wrong work group... BUSTED.