[GTALUG] Suggestions for stopping occasional spurious use of commercial wi-fi

[Don Tai]

I am assuming that on the Rogers router you are already using WPA2 and that
someone has cracked it using a tool like AirCrack-NG (Kali dist or
download). Physical barriers to limit signal strength will not alone
protect you. There are numerous tutorials out there on how to use
Aircrack-NG.

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 14:36, James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 09/16/2018 02:32 PM, Don Tai wrote:
> > You can also look into using metal mesh/aluminium foil to limit your
> > router's directionality. For example if you are in an apartment and
> > the router is on the west perimiter, put up some chicken wire blocking
> > access further west. If you are in an apartment with a single floor
> > then reorient your antenna to not transmit your signal higher or lower
> > than your floor. That will further limit access.
> >
>
> WPA2 encryption would be more effective.  Start with a new password.  I
> use the "Perfect Passwords" from www.grc.com to generate 63 random
> characters.
>
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