Have you secured your wifi network yet?
I am still surprised that some friends have not secured their wifi settings. Their reason is they do not know how to get into their router settings. Others are afraid to fiddle with their wi-fi settings that they thought they might mess up and cause interruption to their internet service. Others do not know their default router address and default router log in and password. They even say that using the existing default gateway when typing ipconfig on a command prompt does not bring up the router's log in page. I find this comment rather weird as I have not experienced before. I always arrive at my router's log in page using my default gateway address. So it might be a technical problem with their device, or my friend's lacking in technical ability.
Not getting into the router's innards means not knowing which devices are attached to it wirelessly. And if an unknown device is attached without you knowing, then that device is stealing some of your traffic and causing slowdown on your connection. This is the reason why you need to get into your router's wireless settings and secure it as much as possible.
But if you can not really get into your router's wireless setting for some reasons and want to know whose or what devices are connected into your wireless router without logging into your router's setting, then this application is recommendable.
Advance IP Scanner
This application can help determine, which devices are connected into your wi-fi without logging into the router's home page. Download the application from
http://www.advancedipscanner.com
The interface is very simple and easy to follow.
Once launched, you can just start scanning by pressing the green arrow. The IP addresses to be scanned are already pre configured.
4. File sharing medium
The shared folders on a connected computer can also be shown and browsed using the application.
5. Shutdown connected devices.
On connected computers, you can also remotely shut them down, wake them up or do a file transfer as long as you have radmin running on both of the computers. Video on how to do this at the end of this post.
This application is very useful indeed, and can be a great help to the faint heart to determine if they are sharing their wifi connection without their knowledge.
http://www.advancedipscanner.com
The interface is very simple and easy to follow.
Once launched, you can just start scanning by pressing the green arrow. The IP addresses to be scanned are already pre configured.
What does it do?
1. Shows the connected devices.
The program scans your network and shows all the connected devices, whether it is yours or your neighbours.
2. Determines the default gateway address
It even identifies the router's gateway ip address and translate in into a readable address instead of numbers. This means you can type in www.routerlogin.com instead of the usual http://192.168.0.1. This time the scanner has seen six active devices connected into the wi-fi.
3. Shows the MAC addresses of each the connected devices
You can identify the devices that are not yours by simply checking their names and if the name looks suspicious, by their Mac Addresses. To know how to get your MAC address of your devices please see previous post at
If you recognise them all, then there is no device leeching on your wifi.
4. File sharing medium
The shared folders on a connected computer can also be shown and browsed using the application.
5. Shutdown connected devices.
On connected computers, you can also remotely shut them down, wake them up or do a file transfer as long as you have radmin running on both of the computers. Video on how to do this at the end of this post.
This application is very useful indeed, and can be a great help to the faint heart to determine if they are sharing their wifi connection without their knowledge.
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