Thread: wireless hub monitoring software?

I have a wireless modem. have had it for over a year. recently the wireless light has been blinking which would indicate some activity going through there from a remote hub, right?

the only time it ever blinks is when my tivo with a wireless adapter would be sending a recorded program to the PC. as of now, there isn't anything being transfered. so I am saying that something else is going on and I need to find out.

I'm sure there's a program that monitors and detects unwanted useage/intrusion through my hub. I just have a hard time trying to find a decent program.

help a brother out, yo?

Do you mean a wireless network adapter? How is it setup, you just have an ad-hoc connection from the Tivo straight into the computer? That's what it sounds like you are saying. Do you have encryption set up?

What you could do is download "advanced port scanner" from download.com and scan your IP range to see what shows up.

Some antivirus packages have network node detection - for example Trend Micro Internet security (PCCillin) has this. It will look at the network every 30 minutes and if anyone new shows up it warns you about it.

If I'm wrong about your setup and you actually have a network router or AP doing the wireless, any decent one will have status areas in it telling you the mac addresses of the devices connected wrielessly and if the clients are using DHCP it will tell you that info (some but not all will detect non-dhcp clients).

what kind of blinking are you talking about.. constant blinking as if there's a large data transfer in progress, or occasional single-double-triple blinks?

it could be as simple as your wireless router asking your tivo if it is still there, and vice versa. because they do that...

Originally Posted by styx66

what kind of blinking are you talking about.. constant blinking as if there's a large data transfer in progress, or occasional single-double-triple blinks?

it could be as simple as your wireless router asking your tivo if it is still there, and vice versa. because they do that...

constant blinking.

negative on the router asking Tivo since I've turned off Tivo's desktop server.

When it's blinking, log into the router & see who has DHCP leases.

Originally Posted by psychopuck

When it's blinking, log into the router & see who has DHCP leases.

apparently, it listed just my machine.