what do you mean who? if you can login to the router i'm sure you can see the clients connected. also you can check your network and see who's on it thouhg i'm not sure what's the point.
there's no way you can find out where the router is unless you have gps and you can triangulate the position of it with 3 laptops and some probably type of software that links them all together..lol.
If you walk around with your laptop and check signal strength then you should be able to roughly estimate where other wifi routers are. Use any utility such as the Airport Control widget.
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If you can freely enter their computer, you can leave a text file on their desktop saying what you need to say (not sure if this is illegal though). But be careful though, your neighbour may be very angry with you and think you're doing malicious things on his/her computer.
Ever see that episode of "Corner Gas" where Emma and Davis tell Oscar the Internet Police is after him? You can probably do that!
When you say that your computer connects to their router first, do you mean that you'd have to click on the AirPort icon and manually choose your network? I get that with my computer. Most of the time, I always connect to a neighbour's router and I have to change it back. It's too bad AirPort doesn't have a default network to connect to first.
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Agreed with HowEver. If your Mac is automatically connecting to someone else's network right now, it'll get even more annoying if you get that person to apply a password. (You'll probably get a spinning beach ball before a message like "There was an error connecting to ________".)
So it's best to fix things by configuring your own network settings properly. Don't worry about the neighbours.
i guess what i am getting at is , there must be some place i go to when i am connected to there network and i can see some info about them that can lead me to there location
Click here for info on how to set up a preferred network to join.
If anything, you'll know the neighbours' brand of routers by way of their leaving the default name untouched, usually (linksys, SMC, etc.). Those routers have default webpage admin pages, google search for name of router and default web admin page, often with 'difficult' logins like "admin" for username and a blank password. Resetting them to a username and password of your choice ensures you'll be able to login until they do a master reset of the router. Of course you should *never* do this. These people are your *neighbours.*
But if your DSL goes down, for example, and their cable internet remains available...
Your task for this afternoon or evening is to add some punctuation. I'd be happy to apply my limited but perhaps sufficient knowledge, if it was less painful to decipher your post. LOLERZ, btw, I get.
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Originally Posted by Tom Thomas
Ok lets try it this way , i have several computers on my network and only one is mac, the problem is not me getting connected to my network, the problem is my other computers on my system, when they are loged on with one of the other computers they many times connet though the other person on my streets syetem. and all i would like is a little step by step insructions on how eather how to find out who they are so i can go to them and have them lock there system so it does not show up on mine.
i have my system locked invisable to others. that is all i am wishing to do.
please dont just tell me to do this and that with out telling me exacaly what to do because i am completly new to the mac.
not like the person that told me if i have accsess to there router then i should just leave a message on there desktop ....... with out telling me how to do it.
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