There are several ways to check who is using your WiFi signal :
- Log-in to your Router and check how many assigned IP addresses are there via DHCP server.
This step is more complicated and it is for more advanced users. You need to know your Router IP address, User name and password to gain that information from your router. Find out more about this in our previous post How to setup a Router.
- Another way is to use third party programs such as Wireless Net Watcher. This is very small and very easy to use application that can check who is using your WiFi network in real time. For every computer or any other device connected to your network this utility will display useful information such as IP address, Device Name, MAC Address, Network Adapter Company, Device Information as well as user text that you can change as desired for each device.
- If you are connected to your home network and network discovery and file sharing is turned on you will be able to see all attached computers just by going to Start- Control Panel- Network and Internet than you click "View network computers and devices" and you will be able to see all connected computers and access their shared folders.
- Using command prompt you can see connected devices as well. There are few commands to use:
First you need to open command prompt - Start - Run - type "cmd" and hit enter.
- using command "arp -a" you will be able to see IP and MAC addresses of your connected devices
your own IP is "Interface" IP as on picture below
- if you type "net view" you will see all devices by their host names.
Type all commands above without "quotation marks".
