geolocation of devices connected to my wireless router?

Question

Hi, im not completely new to this sort of stuff, but im not a wizard at it.. i can usually work things out

i would like to determine the geographical location of devices connected to my wireless network,
i know people are connected to my wireless router, that's not an issue at all, i just want to pinpoint where they are in relation to the router itself, obviously a wireless router doesn't have a massive radius but im keen to know who is actually connected and where possibly using their mac or ip address to geolocate them and pinpoint them on say google maps or something?

is there any programs out there that can determine this sort of stuff? or are there any known ways of doing this? or any ideas of how to do this?

any information would be sweet :)
btw i own the network and its WPA encrypted and im the only person who can access the routers settings, i gave people my password because we live in a block but the amount of people i gave the password to doesn't always correspond with the amount of devices connected to my router -.- bastards, so that's spurred me on to do some detective geolocating.. cause im bored ;)

cheers

Answer 1

You cannot identify the physical location of any device using you wifi, or who is using it, specialist equipment can do this but is is not available to the public.

You can assume that anyone using your wifi is within about 50 yards or so of your router.

Sounds like your mates who know your password have other mates that they have passed it onto, or they have more than one device active in their house.

If you are concerned about it then change your router password, if you are not then there is nothing that you can do.

Regards, Bob.

Answer 2

cant be done using MAC address or IP address



If you want to kill off your unwanted "guests" then set MAC filtering on your router

(this is really something EVERYBODY that uses wireless should do)



Login to the router



go to the DHCP page



This will show you everybody thats logged into your computer with their MAC address, and the IP address your router has allocated them (I think it also gives their computer ID)



Make a note of all the MAC addresses for the people you want to allow access to your router (and therefore your network and internet connection)



Goto the MAC filtering page (ALL routers have it)

There will be a list of MAC addresses (presumably it will be empty it you aint added any before)

Add all the MAC addresses you noted to the list

Somewhere on the page will be a selection box

Set it to only allow the MAC addresses on the list

(The actual terminology will be in the router manual)

There there are 2 possible settings.

either do NOT allow all the people on the list (so everybody else can get access) ,

or ONLY allow access to people on the list (so everybody not on the list will be excluded)



Thats it - but you might need to reboot the router

NOTE- Do this when connected directly to the Router. If you use wireless then dont forget to add YOUR MAC address



Now ONLY those people on the MAC list will be able to access your router via wireless (most routers only apply filtering to wireless access) - your router will ignore everybody else.

If you want to add anybody else then just add their MAC address to the list.

You want to remove somebody? - then just delete their MAC address



This way it dont matter WHO gets your WPA code, only those on the filtering list can get access.



(WPA encryption only makes the signal secure (i,e it only makes it difficult for people to read the data being transmitted). It dont make the connection to the router secure.)

Answer 3

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