- Oct 21, 2006
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First off, apologies if this is posted in the wrong section.
I'm running Tomato firmware v1.23 on a Linksys WRT54gl with a WPA password that is a combination of letters and numbers.
Back in February i noticed the activity light on the router was blinking like mad even though my pc wasn't turned on. I went to my ISP's site and checked my internet usage and discovered that for the previous 7 days, there was an accumulated 30gigs of usage that wasn't mine. It was quite obvious that someone else was using my wireless since my typical uploads are just a few hundred megs per day at most but now were a couple of gigs.... just in uploads alone.
I changed the password and immediately the light stopped blinking. the next day i checked my usage again and that definitely solved the problem.
Except that about a month later it happened again. This time i caught it earlier so they only stole about 7 gigs. But that still put me over my monthly usage limit so again i was billed extra. Changing the password again solved the problem.
Except that it happened yet again....for the 3rd time, only a few days later.
My ISP won't/can't do anything about it and they made it clear that i will be paying for all of the usage.
I'm mystified as to how this is happening and I don't know what to do. Changing my password every day is going to be a huge pain.
Would going back to the Linksys firmware help?
Is there another solution?
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks.
I'm running Tomato firmware v1.23 on a Linksys WRT54gl with a WPA password that is a combination of letters and numbers.
Back in February i noticed the activity light on the router was blinking like mad even though my pc wasn't turned on. I went to my ISP's site and checked my internet usage and discovered that for the previous 7 days, there was an accumulated 30gigs of usage that wasn't mine. It was quite obvious that someone else was using my wireless since my typical uploads are just a few hundred megs per day at most but now were a couple of gigs.... just in uploads alone.
I changed the password and immediately the light stopped blinking. the next day i checked my usage again and that definitely solved the problem.
Except that about a month later it happened again. This time i caught it earlier so they only stole about 7 gigs. But that still put me over my monthly usage limit so again i was billed extra. Changing the password again solved the problem.
Except that it happened yet again....for the 3rd time, only a few days later.
My ISP won't/can't do anything about it and they made it clear that i will be paying for all of the usage.
I'm mystified as to how this is happening and I don't know what to do. Changing my password every day is going to be a huge pain.
Would going back to the Linksys firmware help?
Is there another solution?
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks.