Security on wireless BB

leche solara

I have just set up a Netgear Wireless Router Modem on my PC. I have wireless turned on as I will be joining a laptop tomorrow. I am using WPA-PSK passphrase (whatever that is) My question is how would I know if someone else was piggy backing on my broadband.

Also what does this mean

System Up Time 01:24:41
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 25496 23407 0 3223 10465 00:41:45
LAN 10M/100M 47359 51231 0 9234 2766 01:24:37
WLAN 11M/54M 1598 0 0 22 0 00:55:14

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3072 kbps 384 kbps
Line Attenuation 41 db 13 db
Noise Margin 8 db 20 db

humaxf1

System Up Time: for how long your modem has been turned on

Port status states how many packets have been transmitted, received, collisions and the transfer rate of bytes per seconds of bytes for transmit & receive. lastly, up time/how long its being running.

So, your WAN connection:

25496 packets sent, 23407 received
0 collisions
3223 bytes/s sent, 10465 bytes/s received
running for 41minutes


WPA is preferred over WEP. To minimise the chance of people hacking your wireless...change the passphrase for WPA every now and again, only allow as many DHCP leases as you have computers, MAC address filtering, turn off the wireless when you aint using it. If you suspect you have been hacked, check the DHCP log for wireless, note the MAC addresses and compare to your laptops' MAC.