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I have few neighbors around me and far to few of them could probably even power a computer on, much the less use one. I usually always set the mac filter to only allow connections from mac addresses I list/add. I purchased a new router and forgot to enable mac filtering and today I found that someone has/had connected to that wireless router from a computer/wireless device I do not own.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a decent and/or free traffic monitor that can pull log data from wireless router(the one I am referring to is Linksys WRT54G v.8) and tag IPs, maybe computer names and MAC addresses as well. Thank you.

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why not just enable wpa or wpa2

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thehelo wrote :

why not just enable wpa or wpa2


Obviously not as much fun as watching someone.

Reply to dbdb

I have Mac and I use ProteMac Meter, it's a network traffic logger. I guess, you can somehow use it in wireless network, however it's for Mac OS only :(

Reply to Maasikas

Use the free aplication Wireshark, you will find it very usefull...

Reply to Anonymous

you can setup your router as static ip instead of dynamic......to enable your router.....at internet explorer....type 192.168.1.1 then enter your user name and passwords.....good luck

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