Neighbors stealing my Wi-Fi.

[KoopaScooper]

It doesn't take a genius to install aircrack-ng, that's not hacking.

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[Theepicman]

My WiFi stretches about 7 house radius because this router is so damn strong. There's about 16 houses I would have to confront.

Do it. If I were you, I'd confront all 16 houses because you were lagging terribly.

[Cut Glass]

Do it. If I were you, I'd confront all 16 houses because you were lagging.

>Go Up To Random Neighbor
>"brother, u be stelin my fuking wifi? fite me irl- wait this isn't the internet...stuff"
No but seriously, what are some other security measures I can take to protect my network?

[SquartleTurtle]

report them to the cops.

OMG MY SIDES

[Steve5452]

I cracked my neighbor's WEP secured WiFi network and used it for about a year and a half before we got out own.

[Aware]

Increase the length of your password? a 16 digit password would take ages to crack, and they would just be wasting their time.

[Theepicman]

>Go Up To Random Neighbor
>"brother, u be stelin my fuking wifi? fite me irl- wait this isn't the internet...stuff"

Oh god I suck at thinking things through.

[ßlöükfáce]

Use an unnecessarily long password, my routers password is like 70 27 characters long

[Cut Glass]

Use an unnecessarily long password, my routers password is like 70 characters long

I...WAHAT JUST WHAT.
Will probably increase it to 24 to be safe.

[Theepicman]

Use an unnecessarily long password, my routers password is like 70 characters long

Take the test.

[KoopaScooper]

No but seriously, what are some other security measures I can take to protect my network?

Turn on wireless MAC address filtering.

Best thing to do in this case.

[Cowboy6]

Current Security

10 Digit Password, WPA2 Personal.
Hidden SSID.

As the other posters have said above, you need to make that pass longer. Also, is it very randomized? 10 digits isn't very hard to guess if they have a program doing the guessing and even more easy if it isn't random. My WiFi pass is about 20 characters long and is so random it would take a solid year or more to guess it, even with a program. Also:

Turn on wireless MAC address filtering. Allow only the addresses you list. I'm doing this with my insecure WEP access point.

This is a good idea as well, but I found, at least for my router, it drove the latency up about 15-20ms or so enabling this. Not huge, but enough to be noticed. Your router may not though.

Edit: It would seem that my guess of a year was a little ways off the mark. LOL.

[Titanium Man]

my wifi password is
...
behold

"jxtymlkbyysqgfhjkm"

[Cut Glass]

As the other posters have said above, you need to make that pass longer. Also, is it very randomized? 10 digits isn't very hard to guess if they have a program doing the guessing and even more easy if it isn't random. My WiFi pass is about 20 characters long and is so random it would take a solid year or more to guess it, even with a program. Also:

This is a good idea as well, but I found, at least for my router, it drove the latency up about 15-20ms or so enabling this. Not huge, but enough to be noticed. Your router may not though.

Edit: It would seem that my guess of a year was a little ways off the mark. LOL.

Going to do that tomorrow morning when I can talk to my parents to tell him all the security measures i'm putting on the network.
Thanks for all the help everyone. Guess just uh... /Discuss Router Security

[KoopaScooper]

This is a good idea as well, but I found, at least for my router, it drove the latency up about 15-20ms or so enabling this. Not huge, but enough to be noticed. Your router may not though.

That's well within the margin of error for wireless networking. I've personally experienced no increases in latency.