Excess Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 Ok this is going to sound weird, but bear with me. I live in a house with my father, his partner, and my sister. I've despised this woman my dad has been seeing, for many years now, and not just because she isn't my mother, I don't particularly care that my mum and dad are seperated, the fact is this woman is a complete bitch, and my sister would agree. Anyway.... we have a wireless network set up, my dad, sister and I are connected to it. The other woman had her own seperate pre-paid connection, at least she did until recently. For some reason she has been connected to our network for some time now, and since it's happened our net connection has been slow, and having constant disconnections. I found out she was connected by looking at our wireless modem, it shows what users are connected. What i want to do, is block this user's laptop from accessing the network without her knowing, but keep the other users connected fine. It's no big deal, she will just use her old connection again, I even have some suspiscion that she's done something to the connection to make it weak on purpose because she knows I use the internet a lot. Trust me, she's done similar things in the past. But I don't have any knowledge on networking, and I'm not very good with computer stuff in general, so if anyone could help me out with this somehow it would be really awesome. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 The easiest thing to do would be to change the passwords required for access to the network and not let this person know the new code. Or have I misunderstood? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excess Posted September 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 The easiest thing to do would be to change the passwords required for access to the network and not let this person know the new code. Or have I misunderstood?It would be better if she just had no access to the network at all from her pc, If i change the password for it they will eventually know I did it. If I could somehow block it from letting her pc on the network specifically would be better. A few things to note; I can get access to her laptop, she leaves it unattended sometimes when she goes out, also can easily get access to the other 2 pcs connected to the network. So maybe if I could block her from the modem or something, so she wouldn't know what's going on, that would be best :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 If you are able to access all the PC's - why not just change the password on all but the one you want blocked. It is unlikely that anyone will notice that a new password has been applied. I doubt that she has been able to However - if you do manage to block access - she will probably put you top of the list of suspects and you will have to accept the consequences of that. If you cripple her laptop - you may well find that your Dad simply allows her to use his computer. Whoever pays for the broadband connection is theoretically able to choose who uses it - if you pay for it, then make it clear who can use it and set it up accordingly. If your dad pays for it - tough luck - it's his call.I fear that this is a battle you are unlikely to win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excess Posted September 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 Well i'll change the passwords and see how that goes, though I don't know how to do it, could someone tell me how to please? Sorry for my lack of computer skills. Thanks for the replies also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 A common way of determining who can use a wireless network is for the administrator to specify only those MAC addresses which are authorised to have access to the router.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JENOVA Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 ^^^^Just Block her MAC Address From the MAC Table in you Access Point :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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