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did someone hack my network?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1373888" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>An IP address is handed out by a WiFi access point AFTER you have successfully authenticated to it. So, if you are using WPA-2 or similar for security, your WiFi-stealing neighbors have to first crack your password and get into the network at which point they would get an IP address in whatever range you happen to be using. Next, the .1 is usually reserved for the access point acting as your gateway and they'd have to crack your local router password to get on there..</p><p></p><p>Setting your IP address to some random range doesn't do anything..</p><p></p><p>And BTW, most routers use the 192.168.xxx.xxx class C range, but you could just as easily use the 172.16.xxx.xxx or something..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1373888, member: 110816"] An IP address is handed out by a WiFi access point AFTER you have successfully authenticated to it. So, if you are using WPA-2 or similar for security, your WiFi-stealing neighbors have to first crack your password and get into the network at which point they would get an IP address in whatever range you happen to be using. Next, the .1 is usually reserved for the access point acting as your gateway and they'd have to crack your local router password to get on there.. Setting your IP address to some random range doesn't do anything.. And BTW, most routers use the 192.168.xxx.xxx class C range, but you could just as easily use the 172.16.xxx.xxx or something.. [/QUOTE]
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