Unsecured Router
 

One of my neighbours has a Netgear DG834G which is unsecured. As ive just managed get on to their router and the admin page i was wandering if there was anyway i could find put who it is (without walking the streets to see where the signal got stronger) or contact them or leave a message that they would see rather than let some idiot change the password on the router and for example enable WEP

Re: Unsecured Router
 

If they have SNMP enabled you may get some info from that but I kinda doubt it...

You could try an educated guess.

The problem of leaving them a msg is that you could actually get done for this, as it comes under the computer missue act or something like that, im sure someone will correct em if I am wrong...

Another trick is, join there workgroup and look at the computer name, if its like most people I see they generally either leave it as the default, or call it there name.. thus giving you another clue, but again, illegal...

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how would i find the name of their workgroup?

Re: Unsecured Router
 

You could try doing a "net send" message and see if that gets through, If there router is unsecured, they probably they haven't disabled it.

Go to the DCHP/active hosts page, and find out which IPs are active. then goto start, run, type in "cmd" and then type in:

"net sent <ip> <message>"

It should make a dialog box appear on their screen.

Re: Unsecured Router
 

hmm only problem is nowadays net send is switched off....

Re: Unsecured Router
 

I had this, My laptop came with software called 'Configfree' which had a radar type screen, which had it toeards the edge of the screen.

I had one neighbour that it would possible belong to. I asked them, it was them and told them to hide the SSID. I also blocked there MAC/IP in my router.

What wi-fi have you got its only going to be withing 3-4 doors from you. try knocking on the most likey.

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i couldnt get net send to work on my own network with an ip address :(

the are no attached devices to this router at the moment (other than me!!)
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good point but i can see 3 networks already and the nearest house to mine is actually in a different road!

Re: Unsecured Router
 

Wicked you could just secure the wifi or hide the SSID that way it'll be harder for other people to see it. other then that its hard going mate... you might be able to have more luck goin from door to door till you find the signal.

Also like whats mentioned below is that its illegal to "skimp" op someone's connection and you could get done for it.