Greetings everyone,
In my apartment I surf the internet on my laptop via Swisscom’s encrypted WiFi. (20/2 Mbit). Now I have seen that I have a very strong open WiFi signal in the apartment, with which I can reach 30/3 Mbit/s! can/could surf. Question: Can this network be assigned? What puzzles me is the extremely strong signal.
Thanks for your feedback.
Greetings Ruedi
Sali Ruedi.
You can use the MAC address of this access point to find the manufacturer.
e.g. with this tool http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/
However, it is more informative to check the public IP using whois.
Connect to WiFi. Check the public IP and enter it here http://whois.domaintools.com/
At least this way you can find out which ISP this IP belongs to.
Hello Ruedi
My first thought:
Could be a Cablecom/upc Anschluss. CC/upc recently added a WLAN router. I don’t know whether these routers emit a strong signal and whether they are delivered encrypted or unencrypted.
You could assign it by looking around on this network and finding out something about the owner, but as far as I know that would be forbidden.
Maybe someone left this WLAN open so that they could access other connected devices.
Maybe you could ask around in your neighborhood.
Greetings Herby
#user63
How do you know that the Anschluss is 30/3?
Have you done a speed test?
Use of an open WLAN may also be possible.
Above all, it can cause problems for the operator.
I recommend that you contact your neighbor who has the WiFi open and point it out to him. He’ll probably let you surf over his network.
Sorry Marcus but where did you get this nonsense from?
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Use of an open WLAN may also be possible.
Above all, it can cause problems for the operator.
The use of the WLAN in itself is never a crime, at most you commit crimes through it, but they are in themselves punishable no matter what you do them for.
a completely different problem on the topic.
The owner of the router is easily able to “record” everything that runs through his router. To do this, you don’t have to be a big hacker, you just have to install well-known tools (the names of which I don’t want to mention here). Even VOIP and SIP conversations can be easily filtered out. E-mail and other accounts as well as associated passwords are prepared and can be read automatically. It is therefore by no means advisable to “use” unknown open WLANs. Some of the open WLANs are open precisely for this reason.
@Master wrote:
Sorry Marcus but where did you get this nonsense from^
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Use of an open WLAN may also be possible.
Above all, it can cause problems for the operator.
The use of the WLAN in itself is never a crime, at most you commit crimes over it, but they are in themselves punishable no matter what you do them for.
a completely different problem on the topic.
The owner of the router is easily able to “record” everything that runs through his router. To do this, you don’t have to be a big hacker, you just have to install well-known tools (the names of which I don’t want to mention here). Even VOIP and SIP conversations can be easily filtered out. E-mail and other accounts as well as associated passwords are prepared and can be read automatically. It is therefore by no means advisable to “use” unknown open WLANs. Some of the open WLANs are open precisely for this reason.
Completely agree with Master. You should also tell the operators of open radio networks to please encrypt this network. Type of encryption at least WEP, better WPA. The operator is liable with his IP address if someone misuses his WiFi network for illegal purposes.
Especially in the file sharing area, it can quickly happen that the operator receives a report from a large law firm because a copyright infringement has been committed (on his IP address).
greetings 99th
