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Originally posted by Super Dude
You could also try contacting your ISP, find out the IP address of your neightbours, and block their IP

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What ? When you connect to a wireless network you don't submit your Internet Connection's IP, or any other!! So external IP's have nothing to do with it..

You do submit your MAC address, and an ISP can block specific MAC addresses from using the connection at different times of the day (or just block the connection out right).

You're right about the IP address though. My bad. I'm was thinking something else

Isn't that a major invasion of privacy? "Oh, can you just tell me all my neighbours MAC addresses". I'm not sure about other countries but in Australia they wouldn't tell you.

Yeh i'm pretty sure you wont get their mac adress

No... its only if they are piggy-backing off your internet. Their computer will send a MAC address to your ISP, and your ISP can take that address and block a computers ability to use the internet using your IP (thus they can't use the internet using your wireless internet).

You won't physicly be told their MAC address, but the ISP has it and can use that information to stop a person(s) from using your internet (granted they have already). If your neighbour hasn't piggy backed off your internet before, then your ISP won't have their MAC address.

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Originally posted by Super Dude
No... its only if they are piggy-backing off your internet. Their computer will send a MAC address to your ISP, and your ISP can take that address and block a computers ability to use the internet using your IP (thus they can't use the internet using your wireless internet).

You won't physicly be told their MAC address, but the ISP has it and can use that information to stop a person(s) from using your internet (granted they have already). If your neighbour hasn't piggy backed off your internet before, then your ISP won't have their MAC address.

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Explain to me how the ISP gets their MAC address when you're using NAT.

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Originally posted by Underlord
Explain to me how the ISP gets their MAC address when you're using NAT.

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If my memory serves me correctly, a NAT allows one IP address to represent an entire group of computers.

Nodes that accesses an ISP have a unique MAC address within their network adapter(s). This allows the ISP to distinguish how many computers are acessing the internet , and also allow them to discontinue service to certain computes by blocking service to specific MAC addresses on the one IP address.

The only way (that i know of anyways) to stop this is by using a MAC clone, which masks every computer accessing an outside network with the exact same MAC address, thus hiding the individual computers using the network.

So if i was to use wpa then how would i find out my psp's mac address?

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
So if i was to use wpa then how would i find out my psp's mac address?

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in the psp browser in one of the menus theres an option "Display connection information" and it will be on there.

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak


Ahhhh, I'll be using the WEP then

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Like others, I'd advice you to use WPA instead of WEP. WPA is more secure and quicker to setup properly.
WEP encyption can be broken by packet sniffing, I've heard of 128bit WEP encypted networks being broken into in under 15 minutes.