Surely more than once has aroused in you the doubt of whether someone could be taking advantage of your WiFi connection in the face. In today's tutorial, we will talk about
how to know if you are stealing WiFi from Android
and also give some useful tips to keep our WiFi protected.
We are not going to call it paranoia, since to think that they
are using our WiFi without authorization
is a very common question that usually assaults us when we see that our connection does strange things
(unexplained cuts, unexplainable restarts, etc)
.
How to know if you are stealing WiFi from Android.
The curious thing about this method is that we can do it directly from our mobile device, yes, we will have to have the smartphone or tablet connected to the WiFi network that we believe is being stolen.
The usual symptoms when we steal the WiFi connection are:
low speed, web pages load very slowly, there are breaks in the connection, the router shows activity even with all our devices turned off, etc.
First of all, we will install the
Fing - Network Tools
application on our Android device, which, as its name suggests, is a
network diagnostic application
. Then we execute Fing and wait for the scanner to finish scanning the network and show us the connected devices.
Now we will have to identify those devices that are ours.
Some devices may show a strange name, in this case it will be helpful to click on it and we will obtain more details.
One way to identify the devices is by their MAC address, which is unique in each device.
To simplify the task of detecting the intruder, it is advisable to disconnect all devices from the WiFi network
(even turn them off, since some keep the connection open in the background)
, except for the device where we are going to execute Fing obviously. Now when scanning the WiFi network we should only show the gateway
(which is usually 192.168.0.1)
and our device.
If it shows us some other device, we have already identified the intruder.
So that they can not steal our WiFi connection we must change the password immediately
for a more complex one and make sure that the authentication encryption is WPA2. With these two simple tips we will be safe.