can people hack a wireless conection very easy?
338556
Yes. It is easy to find possibly 5 open network in any given neighborhood. In the downtown areas of major cities, many companies have unsecured wireless networks and can have their information compromised.
531318
sometimes you have to have a password from the wireless provider.
624708
Wireless fidelity networks are assumed to be safe once you've taken the safety measures. But at most of the time you are safe with the right operator.\n\nI've learned that certain computer crooks! (Hackers!) They simply create a bogus Wi-Fi network around a limited area and get people to use them. During the active session of the users connected they retrieve personal information such as, bank account numbers, passwords, names and much more. These fake Wi-Fi networks are hard to distinguish between the real. They are almost real, accept for the bad job they do!
660310
No.\n\nUse someone's wireless network.\n\nUse an anonymous email like Yahoo.\n\nDon't do it again from the same network or email address.\n\nThat's all...
545401
You don't. It's called hacking, and hacking is illegal.
979364
You can set up the security key  for your wireless network. It's like a password, everyone wants to use your network has to use this key.   \n\n. Because you will need a default password to access this feature, you should check the manual or any provided intruction to help you.
315529
Someone living near you (within 100 metres) also has a wireless network. If you set yours up, you should be able to choose which network you want - make sure you give your network a meaningful name so that you can recognise it.\n\nIt would be worth finding who this person is, and telling them to enable wireless network security, and that you found their confidential information by mistake, so that they don't have malicious people using that information. And make sure you enable security on yours too.
511555
I don't know where you can get it, but WEP has been cracked. It just isn't secure. Maybe you'd rather look into some more secure algorithm, like WPA?
840809
The cheapest solution is to get a usb wifi key, which is going to cost around 30 euros!
856809
1.Set up WPA passwords (WEP can be cracked easily, anyone with an internet connection can figure out how to do this in under 5 minutes, WPA has no simple way to crack, someone has to gather over 1 million packets to crack it, and even then, it's just an educated guess and not for sure).\n\n....a) Go into your router settings, click on Wireless tab, enable \n........security, pick WPA and use 9 numbers. (Reboot your \n........router, and all the computers on your network, it will now \n........ask them for the password you set up in your router)\n\n2. Set up Mac Filtering (this will only allow the Mac Addresses from the wireless cards you are using on your computers, for most home networks, you don't really need to do this, but it is "extra security")\n\n....a) This is a little more difficult, you have to find out all the MAC\n....... Addresses for all of your wireless network interface cards \n.......(Wireless cards)\n....b) Go to each of your computers on your network, and click on\n....... Start -> Run -> type in "command",\n....... after you get a DOS screen type in "ipconfig /all"\n....... you should now look for where it says Physical Address\n....... it should say something like "00-22-WP-EC-23-3C"\n....... That is your MAC address for that machine, write it down\n....... (repeat that step for all of your computers you want to \n....... connect to your router)\n....c) Now you can go to your wireless settings in your router and \n....... enable MAC address filtering, and type in the MAC \n....... addresses you want to allow.  Reboot your router again, \n....... after all of that, and you should be good to go.\n\nOR... (My personal favorite way)\n\nYou can leave it unsecured, and download Cane & Able, use ARP Poisoning, and sniff out all the passwords from people who are stealing your bandwidth, and then go over to your neighbors house and tell them you have their passwords and they should stop using your unsecured network... I did that... and it worked out pretty well for me.\n\nIt will give you all their myspace passwords... yahoo passwords... credit card numbers... etc, and it's all legal for you to do because its YOUR network.  You can sniff out any packets you want, on YOUR network.
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Using your web browser and a hard wire connected computer open the configuration page of your router.  To do this enter the following IP in you browser address bar 192.168.1.1\n\nYou should be prompted for a userid and password.  Leave the userid blank and the factory password is admin.  If you have changed it use that password.\n\nFrom here go to the Wireless tab and then select the wireless security sub tab.  Here you can set the encryption level and the passphrase to use.  Write down the passphrase and the resultant hex string.  You will need this information to enter into the wireless card on the computer that is going to use the access point.\n\nGo to the wireless computer and put in the same security information.  The systems should then be able to communicate through the wireless network in secure fashion.
1094427
I doubt it. Most wireless problems turn out to be signal strength problems, interference issues, or bad security configuration.
963842
If you are talking about your personal connection at home, you dont scramble it as such... you need to encrypt the signals using the WEP encryption feature (if your router supports it).
908030
You might be able to, depending on whether you can get signal or not. \n\nMore than one computer can connect via a wireless router with no problems in most all cases. If your neighbor has secured the network with a password then you are out of luck unless you can hack it or get the password from him.\n\nI 'borrowed' signal from my neighbor while I was reconfiguring my router but his network is unsecured.\n\nIt sounds like he is not being completely honest, most likely to keep his network private...
1125761
I suppose the equipment would depend on what frequency of the wireless signals you want to capture.\n\nFor wireless network signals het a 802.11 card and download netsumbler and drive around. there is another program you can use but i can't remeber it's name.\n\nMaybe you should try searching sites that sell spying/survalience equipment.
592568
i dont think its possible...\n\nbut on the other hand...\n\n\nmaybe its possible using 3 party security softwares...
393472
Technically yes (although legally difficult concept as yet) but it is also insecure so your data may be unsafe - the 'owner' of the network could be intercepting your data.