Someone using my open wifi

[strydr]

well, you could set up a proxy server, that way he/her would get your page first, leave your phone # or e-mail, ask him/her to contact you, and you will authorize (for a fee) his/her access to the web. Kinda like how the airport's are setup.

 

[jared_kipe]

I like the two options above, setting up a proxy or nameserver. How would I go about doing that?

 

[Cfg5]

jesus christ dude, just put a password on your wifi and be done with it. stop trying to be a detective or some ****.

 

[jared_kipe]

jesus christ dude, just put a password on your wifi and be done with it. stop trying to be a detective or some ****.

Whatever happened to the old adage, "if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all"?

 

[emw]

I don't believe I've seen anyone else say this - if someone you don't know can get onto your network, make sure you've changed the default password on your router. The last thing you need is somebody screwing around with your settings when you don't know it. Sure, you can reset, but it can become a hassle.

 

[plinden]

I know you've already said it's not very helpful, but if you close up your network, even for a day, he or she will get the message.

They mightn't even be intentionally using your wifi. When I got my laptop from work, I was pleasantly surprised that I was connected wirelessly to my wireless router with hardly any configuration. It was only after I'd been using it for a while that I realised I should have had to set up the WPA password, and checking the wireless config that I found the laptop had automatically connected to an unsecured neighbours wifi. Hmm, just checked, they are still open.

 

[jared_kipe]

I know you've already said it's not very helpful, but if you close up your network, even for a day, he or she will get the message.

They mightn't even be intentionally using your wifi. When I got my laptop from work, I was pleasantly surprised that I was connected wirelessly to my wireless router with hardly any configuration. It was only after I'd been using it for a while that I realised I should have had to set up the WPA password, and checking the wireless config that I found the laptop had automatically connected to an unsecured neighbours wifi. Hmm, just checked, they are still open.

This is true. If nobody comes up with anything interesting in a day or so I'll just lock up my wireless connection.

 

[telecomm]

If you're just trying to pass along contact details to the person using your connection, you might see if you can set up a network message to display whenever someone connects to the wireless network. I know you can do this using an Airport Express, so there's probably some way to do it using your Linksys.

(For Express users, and regular base station users too, I presume, you can set a message to display using the Admin Utility—there's a text entry field under Network.)

 

[Kwyjibo]

yeah ... your intentions are nice but I think what the rest of us are trying to imply is that this kid is just a free loader ...

that being said my favorite thing to do on an unsecured network with default connections is turn off thefacebook and aim for a while ...

Also on a note, make sure you don't have any wide open shares there ... like if you were on an unsercured network and your desktop was shared which contained a huge folder (350+ itesm)

 

[XNine]

Given the fact that sending this person a message could be considered a cybercrime, you might want to be careful. I'm not here trying to tell you "shut up and cos your network." Just be careful, okay?

What I do know is that it's hard to get a message across on these things. Netsend is a possibility. I believe its on by default. But I'm not sure how you'd send it. Are you able to see this guy's computer under Finder/Network/Servers??? If so, that's give you the name of his machine. But I believe netsend only works on user accounts. Perhaps if you open iTunes Sharing you may be able to see his account name?

 

[unixfool]

Nmap port scanning isn't intrusive or considered illegal and should be acceptable since its a machine connected to your network.

 

[jared_kipe]

Here is what I've tried.
smb://192.... couldn't find it
ftp://192... asked for password and user, empty fields didn't work
afp://192... couldn't find it

Tried the smb send message thing someone suggested earlier, couldn't find him. I know his NIC provider is Intel.
So if you can tell me some terminal commands to use like the "nmap" then go for it.

Here is why I want to send him a message, if he tells me he only uses it to surf and check email. And isn't doing anything big (I cannot tell all I know is that every time I check the last 100 or so outgoing things in my router log (as much as it keeps) are all from my comptuers). Then I'm gonna tell him my WPA password and lock my network. If he proves to be bothersome, then I'll ask for a small monthly fee, or just lock him out. But I know he's been on the network recently, as a computer I have off doesn't show up on the DHCP table.

that being said my favorite thing to do on an unsecured network with default connections is turn off thefacebook and aim for a while ...

Thats funny, I'm in college and I know people who use facebook religiously, I don't see what the appeal is.

EDIT: Hell he might be a cool guy, and we can play a game of Halo or something.