Intruders on your Wi-Fi network can end up turning your experience into a living hell. So much so that you don’t have to have several, it only takes one person sneaking into your Wi-Fi network it can consume all or almost all of your bandwidthand your internet connection will not only be very slow, but you will also have significant latency issues.

If this happens, something as simple as downloading lightweight files, even if they are only a few megabytes in size, it may take several minutes when normally they should download almost immediately. You’ll also notice that you won’t be able to play streaming content, or you might very low quality and that they are constantly stopping or cutting.

High latency on the other hand it causes a delay between your actions and the moment it manifestswhich prevents you from playing online games and doing something as simple as browsing the internet, sending emails and chatting.

How to detect intruders on your Wi-Fi network

Kicking intruders off your Wi-Fi network is very easy, but before doing so, I recommend that you confirm that you really have this kind of problem. There are times when we experience symptoms that may make us think we have an intruder, but then it turns out that what is really happening is that we are suffering connection problems that have a different cause.

To confirm this, enter our router settings or use a dedicated network monitoring application if we have one, such as FRITZ! App WLAN from AVM and check which devices are connected or you have recently joined our Wi-Fi network. If we see a device that is not ours, there will be no doubt that we have an intruder. I remind you that to enter the router settings, you just need to enter 192.168.0.1 in the address bar of any browser.

Change your password to kick out intruders

It’s that easy. From your router’s settings interface, go to the section dedicated to WLAN, where passwords are managed and configured and change the password of all connections. For example, if you have two connections, one from the 2.4 GHz band and the other from the 5 GHz band, it is ideal to change both passwords.

The moment you do this, intruders will be disconnected and will have to enter a new password to reconnect. If you want to effortlessly strengthen the security of your Wi-Fi network you can take the opportunity to disable the SSID and change the network name. You can also resort to MAC filtering, although the latter is usually unnecessary for the average user.

As you can see, the process is very simple and does not take much time. Do you have any doubts? Well, leave it in the comments and we will help you solve it.

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