For one week my Internet connection was extremely slow. The first days I did nothing thinking it was a temporarly issue with my provider, but it lasted too long.
So, I changed the password of my Wifi network, and for the moment it seems that my connection has come back to normal.
If it's really that, than maybe somebody has hacked my network (even though I have a 63 characters long password).
Do you have an easy-to-use tool to check the devices connected to the network?
@KillianKemps you should log in to your router and check the devices. Also, do not use WEP to set up your password. Use WPA2. WEP is very easy to crack, it takes 3 mins.
@sebastian Thank you for the the router tip. I'm using WPA2-PSK [AES] with a 63 characters long password which should be okay.
@KillianKemps I see. That's more than enough. The only way to crack that would be with a dictionary and brute force WPA cracker, so having something at random would help. Just to be 100% safe, restrict access by MAC filtering, so only those MAC addresses listed will have access to your router.
@sebastian Yes that's why I'm really curious if my network has really been hacked.
I used to do MAC address filtering earlier, but as I can have guests, I found it too burdensome to white-list their devices.
Well well, I will continue to monitor my network.
@KillianKemps that's strange. I read about malicious code taking control of routers and using them in orchestrated DoS attacks. So having a strong password to access your router is a must.