DSL Thieves, How do you stop em? Options

[97lestyousay]

I recently learned that a nieghbor has been using my dsl to acess the web.
Is there a cheap easy way to stop this. I have heard this slows me down is this
true? I live in an apartment so there may be more.

[lagos]

^ in the real world, 128 bit security is getting old, but most people are not going to be able to crack it.

There is no sence bothering with enabeling security unless you know what your doing, best thing to do is just yank the antenna or turn of wireless all toghether (howver beating up the guy may help out)

yanking the antenna wont turn off the brodcast...lol. its best to either turn it off in the routers settings, or enable security if you need wireless access. 128bit is whats used evertime you send your credit card info over the net. its pretty secure. if a really skilled hacker REALLY wanted to get in, he might be able to do it, but it would be a royal pain in the ass. then he would get stoped by mac filtering, and would somehow have to find your mac address and spoof that as his own. all that trouble to get into your neighbours net access for free is not really worth it for any real hacker.

the people that steal your wirelss do it because they can. its like the front door of your house. if you leave it wide open, strangers will walk in, but if you lock it, it will keep people out. sure, you can pick the lock and get in, or break the door down, but most people wont bother with all that unless they are really trying to target you for a specific reason