screen casting

Hi tmawrench,

I hope you are doing well. I am not as knowledgeable as Joey on this. But, I can think of 3 possible reasons of why this is happening.

1. Your wireless internet is not password protected, making it accessible for anyone. Here is a link to a tutorial I found for you to set it up:

2. Someone hacked into your network, to mess with you apparently. So, you will need to make your security stronger. But in this case someone else can assist you better than I can.

3. You gave your wireless password to a neighbor or someone when they went to your house. And now they are just having fun with you. So my suggestion would be to change the password on the wireless internet.

I hope any of this help.

Rojo

Hi Steve,

Rojo gave good advice and instructions. I will add to it.

This is exactly the type of thing I like to do to mess with family or friends. I screen cast to their TV and act like they are crazy or dumb when they ask me what is going on. I know, I am mean at times, lol.

If it is not your family or friends messing with you, it may be an outside hacker. The network map tells you everyone that is currently on your network. So if they hack on your network and screen cast for a few seconds, then disconnect, by the time you check the network map they will not be listed.

As for passwords, I too use WPA2-PSK [AES]. I always use the following characters in my password which secures it good…
1. 2-4 lower case letters
2. 2-4 capital letters
3. 3-5 numbers
4. 2-3 of the following, !@#$%^&*()

If you use something simple like, “starwars2015” or “monkey12345” it can get guessed easily. One of my relatives used to have the name of his favorite football team as his password followed by the year he was born. Everyone that knows him knows he loves that team, so any of them could have hacked his WiFi easy, before I made him change it.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by  Joey.

If it is a hacker, then yes, changing password and enabling Media Access Control (that’s the option where you have to input MAC addresses, right?) will lock it down tight.

I was thinking about it at work, and thinking about my brothers TV, which is a smart tv. I remember that you could access youtube through the app. you just needed to link them with a code or something and then you could always just screen cast.

But then again, I don’ think getting off network would block this method so yeah.