How to Kick People
Off Your WiFi Network

How to kick someone off your WiFi so you can enjoy your Internet connection to its maximum capacity and never deal with slowdowns and connection drops ever again? Our secret weapon, our mighty WiFi user blocker, won’t be any expensive hardware device nor software application. Instead, we will rely solely on the capabilities that are already present in your router, although we will recommend a few useful software tools.

Poor speeds: If your Internet speeds are mediocre even though you are not downloading any files or streaming high-definition video content, the chances are that someone who isn’t you is doing just that on your expense. This is especially true if you experience the slowdowns only at certain times of the day, such as in the evening, after your neighbor has returned home from work.
High latency: Latency is the time it takes for a message to travel from a user’s computer to an Internet server. The symptoms of high latency are most noticeable in real-time applications, such as Skype or online games. For example, you might send a message only to see it reach your conversation partner with a noticeable delay. Or you might click on the fire button in a game and miss because your opponent has already moved elsewhere.
Router reboots: To some extent, it’s perfectly normal for routers to reboot from time to time. A reboot might be triggered by the router itself for maintenance purposes, or it might be triggered by a software update pushed by the router’s manufacturer. But if your router reboots all the time, something suspicious is going on. Someone might be trying to access your WiFi network using brute force, and you should know how to block WiFi users to prevent this from happening.
Lack of encryption: If, for some reason, your WiFi network isn’t encrypted using either the WPA or the WPA2 security protocol, then you can be sure that someone either is or recently has been on your WiFi network. To this day, countless older routers use the WEP security protocol, which has been considered obsolete for a long time. If you own such a router, get rid of it right now otherwise our advice how to kick people off your WiFi won’t actually help you in any meaningful way.

First of all, you need to find out what your router’s gateway IP address is and type the address into your browser. Cisco and Linksys routers have a default address of 192.168.1.1, but the address varies from manufacturers to manufacturer. Look at the back of your router and, if it isn’t there, look for it online.
Upon entering your router’s gateway IP address into your browser, you will be taken to the router’s admin interface and prompted to enter the admin username and password. In most cases, both the username and password are “admin”.
Next, use the navigation menu to display a list of all attached devices. You should see a name and MAC address of each connected device.
If you spot a device that looks like it shouldn’t be on the list, you’ve most likely spotted a WiFi thief. You can either disconnect the unauthorized device or block the device’s MAC address altogether to prevent the device from connecting to your network in the future.

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