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Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

JJB111 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:09:51 GMT

I have a shared hallway at my house. My router arrived but the box is just a cardboard box that anyone can open. Can I find out if anyone else is accessing my new wifi if they had opened the box and taken a photo of the network and password before I got my box and took it into my house?

Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

Baldrick1 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:15:46 GMT

@JJB111 Welcome to the Plusnet Community Fora.

If you log in to the Hub 2 Advanced/Wireless page you can change the wireless SSID name and password. That will stop others accessing it wirelessly.

Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

RobPN — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:57:26 GMT

@JJB111 wrote:
... My router arrived but the box is just a cardboard box that anyone can open. Can I find out if anyone else is accessing my new wifi if they had opened the box and taken a photo of the network and password before I got my box and took it into my house?

@JJB111

I just checked my PN router box which has sat unopened/unused since it arrived a year or three ago, and unless things have changed, your box should also be sealed with shrink wrap.

Then again, I suppose somebody in the house might have access to a shrink wrapper ...

Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

JJB111 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:57:41 GMT

Very many thanks

Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

JJB111 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:58:34 GMT

Mine was just the cardboard box without the shrink wrap!

Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

RadioFox — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:47:37 GMT

Just to complete the group set, my EE router & my sisters BT router were both recently sent in cardboard boxes with no seals on them whatsoever. Anyone could have opened them.