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Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

JJB111
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Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

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?
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Baldrick1
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Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

@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.

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RobPN
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Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network


@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 ... 

JJB111
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Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

Very many thanks
JJB111
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Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

Mine was just the cardboard box without the shrink wrap!
RadioFox
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Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network

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. 

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Re: Unauthorised access to my WiFi network


@JJB111 wrote:
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?

Also, when installed and working, you can always check to see for yourself if anyone is piggybacking on your router's Wi-Fi.

Hub Manager --> Log on --> My devices

See what devices are or have been connecting to your Hub 2 via Wi-Fi.