How can I found out who is on my wireless network? I have linksys base router and a wireless adapter.?

My firewall keeps telling me that someone with a mac address and it gives me the mac address is trying to connect. But what i want to know is who it is or a real address. I tried to look it up on dsl reports and all it gives me is that it is a linksys router.|||There are 3 things you need to do to secure your wireless router.





1) Use WPA2 if possible, WPA if you can't use WPA2.


2) DISABLE the broadcast of your SSID.


3) ENABLE a MAC address filter to ONLY ALLOW and enter all the systems you want to get connected.





If you utilize these 3 you'll be secure enough, that you'll be safe from intrusion.





As far as finding out who is attempting to connect to your router now, you can contact your local authorities and see if they have a Computer Crime investigator that will look into the incident for you.|||You're welcome. Thank you for choosing my answer as the best one.

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|||You can't actually find the person just from an IP address or MAC address. Through your router, you should be able to block certain MAC address or only allow certain MAC addresses.|||Does your router do WPA TKIP or WPA AES? If so, you should be using one of them and then you would have no need to worry about anyone who is unauthorised connecting to your network. With a 63 character random password it becomes impossible. Cracking such a password would taking many times the present age of the universe.





That is the only step you need to take. There are no others which are useful. You may be tempted to turn of the SSID broadcast and have MAC filtering. They will slow down a moderately experienced cracker by a few minutes. But if it makes you feel better...........|||change your password|||a MAC address can not give you a name or a real address, every computer, every router has one, and as you don't have register your details to that mac address with say OFCOM or the FCC there is no way of knowing, what you need to do is block that mac address using the linksys router's system, or set a password (use wpa2) encryption it is very strong and i think faster than WPA|||you can not go further. MAC address is the lowest address level in network. This is below IP address and has no mapping to a name like IP does.


But MAC address (coded on 48 bits) have a true advantage on IP: they really are unique. this means that from a worldwide point of view there is only one MAC address per equipment.


Your access point is filtering on MAC address, what you can do is configuring it to allow only your MAC address, thus you can select who's connecting to your network.|||You must set encryption on the router, and matching encryption on the machine, otherwise you are wide open to attack.|||Someone is using your wireless router. Just change your password. Should take care of the problem