How To Find Who Is Using Your Wireless Connection

The Fear: Who Is Using Your Wireless Connection

One of the fears often expressed by users having a router supporting WiFi is that is there might be someone using internet connection through the users wireless network illegally without the user’s notice. Sometimes we use very simple to guess password, sometimes there are those who even does not add any password to protect their connectivity. If one or more people gets an access to your wireless connection they can take advantage of the bandwidth you have available causing slowdowns of the general navigation or, in the worst case commit some offense against the user unaware.

The best thing to do is to check from time to time if someone is connected to your home WiFi wireless network without our knowledge. This can be checked by getting into the router settings (but this procedure may not be easy for everyone), or rely on small programs which are really simple to use and complete in functionality. Below CodeMink present some free programs that will help you in scanning the WiFi wireless network to find out who is using your wireless connection and will show any abnormalities associated with it, like some unwanted guest who managed to sneak into your wireless connection.

If You really: Don’t Want Anyone To Access Your Wi-Fi? Follow This:

If however you discovered that someone has intruded into the wireless network, my advice is to immediately change the password of your WiFi network and reboot the router!

Windows Users

Wireless Network Watcher

Wireless Network Watcher  is a tool that allows you to  constantly monitor incoming connections to your router. Once launched, the tool automatically searches the network adapters present and find the one that provides the connection to the Internet. If it does not, you can manually select the network interface that you are interested by pressing F9.
The application will carry out a  scan of the entire range of IP addresses for the network under consideration and provide you a list of all the connected devices.  If you want, you can also export the list in HTML, TXT, CSV or XML. For each connected device you can have a variety of information including the ‘IP address , the  MAC address  and the  name .
AutoScan-Network
AutoScan-Network is a network scanner practically professional. It does not require any configuration, but with a simple click you will have the list of networked equipment. Among the features are:

• Fast network scanning
• Automatic Network Detection
• TCP / IP scanner
• Wake on LAN feature
• Multi-threaded Scanner
• Port Scanner
• Low surcharge on the network
• VNC client
• Telnet Client
• SNMP scanner
• Simultaneous subnetworks is scaned without human intervention
• Findings in realtime any related equipment
• Supervision of any equipment (router, server, firewall …)
• Supervision of any network service (smtp, http, pop, …)
• Automatic detection of known operating system (brand and version), you can also add any other resources unknown to the database
• The graphical interface allows you to connect one or more agents scanner (local or remote)
• Intrusion detection
• The whole structure of complete network can be saved in an XML file

Linux Users

If you are a user of the penguin you can rely on  AutoScan-Network  (also available for Windows and Mac), or learn to be familiar with the command netstat .
Incoming Search String: Software which Helps User to Find Who Is using Your Wireless Connection