Who's on my wifi?

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Who's on my wifi?

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I have a friend who uses laptops and wanted to ck to see if someone was using his wifi.

I had a program but don't remember what it was. Any ideas?
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the device list on his router.
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Had a couple of wireless devices but I figured out what they were. Kindle and printer. DA!
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Also WEP key wasn't ticked.
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thewolfe wrote:Also WEP key wasn't ticked.
By the way, WEP is trivially easy to crack these days. I'm suggest changing your encryption type to WPA2.
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Thanks, I'll look into that and see if that's one of my options.
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Gott'r done! Thanks.
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Good to hear.
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