Find out what’s feeding off YOUR modem:
http://www.komando.com/downloads/2251/see-who-is-stealing-your-internet/2
“Each computer has a unique IP address, or Internet Protocol Address. Some computer hardware have addresses, too. They’re known as MACs, or Media Access Control.”
“As soon as you boot up Wireless Network Watcher, you’ll see all the detected devices come up on the list. You should be able to recognize all the devices on it. If you don’t, you know somebody is connected without your permission.”
Download instructions
Click on the blue link below. Scroll down the page until you see in purple, “Download Wireless Network Watcher with full install/uninstall support (wnetwatcher_setup.exe). Wireless Network Watcher will automatically download. Open the executable file and follow the step-by-step installation instructions.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_watcher.html
Good tip. I tried it out. A couple of things on my network I can’t identify at the moment. I can vouch for Nirsoft utilities. I’ve used some of them. Amazing tiny programs.
Netgear Genie does a similar thing.
Until I ran around checking all the MAC addresses of my connected stuff, I was freaking out.
:D
I have whos on my wifi. Works well.