Friday, December 16, 2011

Can your ISP actually see your activity through a Linksys router?

Also, if an wireless router from a laptop or so steals your internet connection via your Linksys router, would the laptop get the same ip address as your Linksys router.|||Ok, to the first question, no, they can not because a Linksys router does not store internet sites or cache on it. They'd need a password and IP address to even access the router, so no, they can't. It'd be a breach of privacy and illegal if they did.





As to your second question, no, because each computer has it's own IP address. The only way the router knows to communicate to your laptop is by the IP address on your laptop.





And just so you know, a router is something that broadcasts a signal, an antenna is something that receives the signal (in general terms), so calling a laptops 'router' isn't correct, it's called a laptop's wireless antenna or card.

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