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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 779662" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Security for a wireless network is not set up on your local machine. It is set up on the router. Setting up a firewall on your local machine, if that is the security you're talking about does not prevent anyone from accessing an unsecured network.</p><p></p><p>For others:</p><p>Accessing the router is the place to see all the connections being made to it's network. It is the device in control. Not your local machine. The router is the device that assigns IP addresses to all the devices that are connected to it and keeps track of everything. The router is the place to look to find all devices connected. We're not talking server OS's here, but XP, Vista, OS X, etc. In order to have a piece of software that runs in your OS, it will require a piece of software that can read this info from your router and make it accessible to your local machine. For this, you will typically have to look to the manufacturer of your router to see if they produce such a piece of software for your particular OS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 779662, member: 24160"] Security for a wireless network is not set up on your local machine. It is set up on the router. Setting up a firewall on your local machine, if that is the security you're talking about does not prevent anyone from accessing an unsecured network. For others: Accessing the router is the place to see all the connections being made to it's network. It is the device in control. Not your local machine. The router is the device that assigns IP addresses to all the devices that are connected to it and keeps track of everything. The router is the place to look to find all devices connected. We're not talking server OS's here, but XP, Vista, OS X, etc. In order to have a piece of software that runs in your OS, it will require a piece of software that can read this info from your router and make it accessible to your local machine. For this, you will typically have to look to the manufacturer of your router to see if they produce such a piece of software for your particular OS. [/QUOTE]
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