Wireless card keeps picking up my neighbors AP

[koolzero]

I use KwifiManager and configured it to load a config to connect to my SSID which is wep enabled but it never seems to attach to my access point. Anyway to lock it down?

Thanks

[ryuheixys]

use:
system-config-network

by using this and configuring the wireless card, you can make sure that it "only" connects to your AP
There is a place where it will allow you to type in a name of a SSID to connect to.
good luck

[imdeemvp]

How close are you to your neighbors AP? pretty odd unless you tried to hack the connection....no pund intended....

[koolzero]

I don't think I'm that close (I'm guessing are yards are about 25 - 30 feet apart) but I am able to pick up a few WAPs when I load Wireless Assistant.


What i don't understand is that the one that I'm connected to OscarMayer is my neighbors and it's saying that the signal strength is better than mine which is in my house and at the bottom of the list.

[Twey]

KWifiManager will just connect to the AP with the strongest signal. Tell your neighbour to get some security
Evidently your neighbour has the strongest connection. Try checking:
1) Are there any walls between you and your AP?
2) Is/are your antenna(e) pointing towards it?
3) Are your walls lead-lined or -painted?
Any of these could decrease your signal strength. Failing these, get a bigger antenna

[koolzero]

I'm in my bedroom and the AP is on my TV in my bedrom just 4 feet in front of me and it gives me that signal strength. I use a Linksys 4 port wireless access point, it's a WRT54G. I wish I knew which neighbor and what AP they're using because it's putting out a very strong signal.

When I am using my windows laptop I don't think it says that my neighbors strength is as good, I will double check this later tonight after I get done with work.

Could the TV cause interference?

[koolzero]

This is what Windows displays:



I'm in my house in the same place as before and this is what I get... weird.

[imdeemvp]

What about him/her trying to hack you? for what I know about wifi signal is that stronger signals tend to hack weaker signals.....you should report to you isp.

[koolzero]

What is meant by hacking the signal?

[Firewing1]

it means he boadcasts his local internet to overlap yours and then hacks yours to get free access to anything he wants. It happened to me once; we had 7 GB downloads in 1 month, and our family uses usally 1GB all together. :s
I added a longer password and it *seems* he's gone now.
P.S. Is there any way (apart from the router) to sniff a connection and log it? (EG from my linux box record IP's that go through the router.
Firewing1