WiFi Home Network

[Gben 20]

Is there a central way to tell what devices are connected and/or accessing your wifi network?

I am wondering about ways to detect leeches or unauthorised users specifically?

[Sonic 295]

You should be able to see the clients connected to your WiFi network by accessing it's admin control panel (or whatever they call them). Usually found at the address http://192.168.1.1 but some are different.

 

Look for something along the lines of "DHCP"

 

For example this is mine....

 

 

There is something really strange with the lease time my router assigns to each client though. They should be on 24 hour cycles.

[Chimas 7]

You can state which devices will be allowed to connect to your wi-fi by registering those MAC addresses in a similar screen.

The devices not listed will not connect, theoretically.

[Gben 20]

Hey thanks - this is useful.

[Guest Stevie_K]

Out of pure interest, I was looking at the lease time remaining. How are those values found? 35341 days is quite a while.

[Sonic 295]

You mean in the picture I posted? I have no idea what's going on there. Just something screwed with the router software I guess. It doesn't effect it thought, I have a various wired and wireless clients that still connect without issues, just the strange lease times. Killing the power and restarting the router fixes it, but after a day or so they screw up again.

 

See, here they are today, normal values....