Has your internet slowed down? Do you think someone has stolen some of your
bandwidth on your Wi-Fi ? Do you want to see everyone listed who is using your
broadband and Wi-Fi connection ? Hello I'm Calm Cal, welcome to another
video. In this video we're going to check all of these things and more, firstly we're
going to use some software available on your smart phone. With android click the
Play Store icon "I-Phone" users click on your version of
the app store, in the search area type "fing" - "f-i-n-g" and then press the search
icon. This is the software we're looking for, 10 million downloads, 4.6 star rating,
here is a few things the software is able to do, this free download is limited
but you can buy a fing box to do extra things with, like block devices, restrict
devices access at certain times, which comes in handy if you have children.
Fingbox is currently £150 pounds on Amazon so you can make your own mind up, I
haven't used one, so can't recommend it. Press the install button when ready
press the Open button when this has been installed press this and the software
will automatically start to scan for connected devices this will be
everything connected whether this is direct into your router or attached via
your Wi-Fi you have a sign-in option too which might open up new features I'm
only using the basics so that will be your decision let me know in the comment
section if this was worth doing from the list you can more or less work out if
there's a foreign device that you don't know and it shouldn't be connected.
To make this easier you can click on a device and enter a name for it, so it's
easier to look at at the glance, then click done, you can also click the icon
here to change it, if you have a big network of items connected I think
they more or less have every icon you can think of here, just select the icon you
want and it will change.
You can find out more information by scrolling down, if you select remove
device this may just take it out to the list of devices connected, there are more
features available with fingbox to remove and block devices from your
connection but I'll talk about alternatives later, click on the network
tab and this will give you some more network options, all I want to do from
this list is complete a speed test. Select this and it will run speed tests
on your broadband connection - not your Wi-Fi connection.
The events tab shows your history of devices connecting so you can keep a
check on who's connecting to your network and when, if you set up an
account this may help to store this information, click the Settings icon for
more options, there's more information on thingbox here and there's a Help section
here too - where you can search for information.
App settings allows you to switch certain features on or off
if you scroll down to the bottom you will have Wi-Fi settings where you can
swap between connections. If you think about things logically your supplier
must have a list of Router ID names along with the Wi-Fi passwords, these would have
been passed on to printers to create labels and attach to the Routers and the
password cards that are supplied in the Box. How many different people have had
access to this? For this reason I changed the device name my router broadcasts
the Wi-Fi as and also the Wi-Fi password. I suggest you do the same, there
will be instructions on how to access your router in the box it came in.
Usually it would just be typing the IP address in your internet browser, there
will probably be more instructions on your providers website also, if not - use
the power of Google, someone has probably made a YouTube video on it. If you think
someone has hacked into your Wi-Fi then doing this should resolve the problem. If
not I would contact your supplier, as the software and firmware will
probably need looking at or updating. I have found some free software for PC
you can find this on www dot glasswire dot com, this keeps a record of activity and you have
the option to block certain things using this software too there's quite a lot of
features this software provides there are paid versions that will add more
security features as well worth a look through I will leave a link in the video
description if you are having consistent problems don't hesitate to speak to your
supplier that's it for this video don't forget to Like, subscribe and check out
my previous videos etc, etc. My name is Cal, I hope you found this video helpful,
have a good morning, afternoon, or good evening - farewell till next time, see you
later.
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Thanks for watching to the end !!!