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Is it possible for someone to hack into your private wifi and access devices on it from the guest wifi?
I forgot to set a password to my guest wifi and noticed devices connected to it. I immediately set a password.
No expertise in technology, but could have your isp address, using the quest wifi easier to go unnoticed. If its hacking setting a password means nothing, they'll hack it too. Might just be someone in the vicinity piggy backing. Talk to your wifi provider.
Probably a neighbor looking for a connection. Sometimes I will find myself connected to one that's not mine and discover it's a new neighbor that didn't add security to their system.
Change the PW on the main account.
Don't worry about it unless you continue to see activity on it.
Probably a neighbor looking for a connection. Sometimes I will find myself connected to one that's not mine and discover it's a new neighbor that didn't add security to their system.
Change the PW on the main account.
Don't worry about it unless you continue to see activity on it.
Yeah looks like it's one of the neighbor riding on my guest. I will change the password on the router. thx for the tip.
To answer the original question, if your guest wifi isn't configured correctly it can have full access to your private wifi, password or no, no hacking needed. Make sure you turn off access to the local network.
Any modern router that has a "Guest Network" will not allow access to your network. That's the point of it. To give your guests a WiFi connection and keep them off your internal network. I've never seen a consumer router that has true Guest mode that allows connection to the internal network.
Any modern router that has a "Guest Network" will not allow access to your network. That's the point of it. To give your guests a WiFi connection and keep them off your internal network. I've never seen a consumer router that has true Guest mode that allows connection to the internal network.
Thank you for the info. Makes me feel better about my dumb mistake
Any modern router that has a "Guest Network" will not allow access to your network. That's the point of it. To give your guests a WiFi connection and keep them off your internal network. I've never seen a consumer router that has true Guest mode that allows connection to the internal network.
Netgear has had a setting for this for a while, you can allow or disallow guest wifi access to your LAN.
IIRC the guest network is off by default, and I believe when you enable it, LAN access is off by default.
There are scenarios where someone might want it enabled. Not me, but someone.
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and noticed devices connected to it. I immediately set a password.
