Animenation, I need your help

[Luna]

My sister, whom I can't stand, just got her own computer after finally using up all the memory on mine. When she almost completely ruined my computer I decided not to let her or anybody else in my home use my computer.

Now she got a wireless router, too, and suddenly she has internet.

What I need to know is this:
Is her router stealing my cable modem internet connection which i have in my bedroom on my comp?
And if so, how do I block her router from using my connection?

My sister is a vile human being who doesn't want to have to pay for anything, but lives off of other people, and I don't want her slowing down my connection while I pay for the internet at our house.

Please help.

[Old Ape Face]

If the router is fed from your computer it shouldn't make much difference as to how slow your computer runs. Her's would run a little bit slower.
As long as your computer is directly connected with the modem you should be fine.

[Luna]

Yukimura-Sanada is there any way I can block her from using my connection?

I probably sound cruel, but you don't know my sister. She is truly evil. She almost put my computer out of commission before finally buying her own, and now she gets free internet. She didn't even tell me she was getting a router, she's trying to do it on the down-low, but I found out anyway.

[Mazinkaiser]

You should be able to put a password on your router...I know because my uncle in Hong Kong used to leech off the internet from the apartment above his...until the dude put protected his internet by placing a password, blocking his access. I have absolutely no idea how, but you should be able to do the same...

[Old Ape Face]

um I don't think so. if you've set it up through a bridge on your computer just take out the bridge. but other then that it shouldn't have any connection to your sister's computer in the first place.

[Luna]

Ok here are the specifics.
I have a regular cable modem connected to my computer. It's not wireless, it's not a router. My sister has a little wireless router which I don't know where she got it from. She hooked it up to her computer and now she has internet.
Our bedrooms are almost right next to each other.

I know almost nothing about this kind of thing, so i'm worried she might be getting her internet from my modem...though I don't even know if that's possible.

[Ikari Warrior]

she's probably piggybacking off a neighbor's connection. Unless she covertly plugged a Wireless Access Point into your USB drive, she can't use wireless internet to steal your ethernet.

[Old Ape Face]

you can't get a reception without a router from your own computer. hmmm I'm not sure.

[Tom Servo]

Ok here are the specifics.
I have a regular cable modem connected to my computer. It's not wireless, it's not a router. My sister has a little wireless router which I don't know where she got it from. She hooked it up to her computer and now she has internet.
Our bedrooms are almost right next to each other.

I know almost nothing about this kind of thing, so i'm worried she might be getting her internet from my modem...though I don't even know if that's possible.
That's not possible!

There's no way someone can use a wireless device to hook up with a normal modem like yours, a normal modem doesn't have a receiving/transmitting antenna.

To find out where she's getting her internet connection from just go into her room and look for phone wiring, her router will still have to be connected to a phoneline just like your modem is. If her router isn't plugged into a phone line and she just has a small antenna plugged into her computer then it means she is probably using your neighbours router to log onto the internet - which means your neighbours are using a router that doesn't have any encoding (most router software comes with 64/128-bit hexidecimal encoding or similar to stop people who don't have the correct passpharse from using it) so all you have to do is to tell your neighbours to turn the encoding ON for their router or just change the passpharse they use if they already do and that'll stop your sister working up a huge phone bill for them if they don't have a unlimited download contract or whathaveyou.

[Lord Dagoth]

If your modem isn't connected to a wireless router, it doesn't give out the wireless internet. durdurdur logic. She can't steal a wireless connection that isn't there.

[sailornyanko]

Hahaha, yeah, tell your neighbor that your sister is stealing their internet.

And, get a password for your pc so that she doesn't get any ideas...

And.. how old is she? If she's over 25 and she's still sucking up from mommy and daddy, it may be time to tell her to move out and live the real world. I assume she's the type that will never finish college thinking it's a 4 year long party.

I wished my university experience was like that. ¬¬

[Samurai Drifter]

It's true, the way things currently are she can't use your connection.

If you had a wireless router it would be possible, and the best way to protect against her would be to WEP or WPA encrypt the network and not give her the key.

[Luna]

Thank you so much for your help, I've been so nervous thinking she was using my internets.

Yeah, she is already 26 and still lives at home, for FREE, and doesn't even want to get a job, it's really pathetic. She has been using others and mooching off of my mother for as long as i've known her.

[Bernard_Monsha]

Couldn't she simply hook up a seperate cable modem to her outlet and leach if it is all in the same house. I know I do that with no problems. If you really want to stop her, buy a large flat neodyne and stick them underneath her wireless modem.

[Luna]

update: i got some info from my spy (my little cousin)
and according to him, she has a little thingy that looks like a cell phone attached directly into her PC. now i don't know if it's a router or what it is.
according to him, it has no wires or cables of any kind.

[Nano]

you can use a cell-phone connected to your computer for internet. it looks like your problem is solved. stop moaning, you have internet, I have PDA & phone bill.

[Ikari Warrior]

update: i got some info from my spy (my little cousin)
and according to him, she has a little thingy that looks like a cell phone attached directly into her PC. now i don't know if it's a router or what it is.
according to him, it has no wires or cables of any kind.

AGAIN! It is a WIRELESS DEVICE! It cannot pirate your WIRED signal. It CAN sign on to any unsecured WIRELESS connections.

In sum: your sister's internet is not your problem, period, THE END.

[Fobb]

You have nothing to worry about. If your internet is wired, no one can connect onto it unless they hook it up right to your router.

[Shiroiyuki]

My sister is a vile human being who doesn't want to have to pay for anything, but lives off of other people, and I don't want her slowing down my connection while I pay for the internet at our house.

Please help.

EH! You stole my avatar >_<...talk about 'living off of other people'...meh....MEH....*sigh* damn it.

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[Samurai Drifter]

Yeah, at first I thought you'd changed your name Shiroiyuki.

[Luna]

thank you everyone.
Shiroiyuki, i'm sorry we have the same avatar, though i believe you stole it from me....:P

[Hajime Saitou]

Judging by the fact that both of your avatars are different sizes, both in file size and physical size, I think it's more likely that neither of you copied each other.

[Shiroiyuki]

Judging by the fact that both of your avatars are different sizes, both in file size and physical size, I think it's more likely that neither of you copied each other.

Well, I found the picture I use online one day, fixed it up, cropped it as I saw fit, and made it into my avatar. I guess it isn't too far of a stretch to say that anyone could find the same exact picture and use it here as well, but *shrugs* kinda sucks that I'm no longer 'unique'.

Maybe I'm just overdue for an avatar change ^_^.

[EDIT]
There! The end of confusion ^_^.

[Nano]

I loved that avie, truly. I'll miss it. No one however, has my avie, at least not on AN, and I'll have this avie forever and ever.

[Old Ape Face]

^saves your avatar on my hard drive. :P mine now *****.