Hi All,
Just looking for a bit of advice on trying to track down who has hacked my wifi / stop it happenening again.
I have a netgear wifi router that I connect multiple deviced to but have recently noticed I have had some major go slows so tonight i did a bit of investigating.
I discovered that an unrecognised mac address was on my network, and I was only getting 2Mb rather than the 10 I should.
I recognised all the other mac addresses so went and made sure they were all turned off (2 phones, 2 other desktops, 2 laptops, Wii, PS3), refreshed the network table and was just my pc and the unknown mac address on the network. Still only 2mb speeds afetr a few minutes of monitoring.
So next i put the unknown mac address in a blocked list, saw it dissapear from the network list, and voila, 10mb speeds again (well 9200kbps, so close enough). Turned PS3 Wii and phones back on and they all work fine.
My concern is that from my understanding mac address spoofing is pretty easy and so the hacker will be back in again soon I expect.
I'm currently set up with WPA Personal TKIP connection, but also the option of WPA2 Personal and WPA2 mixed mode. I hadn't gone for those before as I was struggling to set them up (with Wii or PS3 can't remember which) so don't really want to have to reset everything.
If the hacker gets back in again is there any way to see what is being downloaded or identify them?
Any advice gratefully received.
Cam