Discovering Wi-Fi User Activity: Can You Access Someone's History?

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I have a problem, is it possible to access the history of someone who uses my internet via wifi? I would like to see what exactly the user was doing.

VooVoo · Answer

If you have login on your router enabled, you can check it. You will know what IP ports he was running from, so you will find out what he was using.

Sajani · Answer

How to turn it on? I'm green please help!

VooVoo · Answer

It may be different for each router. In my: Administration-> Reporting-> Log -> check Enable

Sajani · Answer

I have d-link 300 and I really can't find this option and I don't know how it should work .... does this also apply to the person connecting through my router from their phone?

salmon · Answer

And you turned it on and watched what is contained in such a log? Because something seems to me that you went a bit into fairy-tale writing Yes, it usually contains a record of operations performed at router startup, received / allocated dhcp leases, firewall alerts, but rather there is no record of exactly every connection as for IP, port, etc. simple, home device ... Besides, what would your friend get from the log of ip's and ports? This does not clearly define the content of the package - you can only guess ...

Sajani · Answer

Well, if your patience does not run out, I would be very grateful for some tips for blondes. I have a d-link 300 router. I would like to know, if possible, which websites someone has accessed from their phone. Is there any program or settings on my administration panel? Thanks a lot in advance

salmon · Answer

At 99.9%, there will be no such information in the router's log. You can try - in the top menu Maintenance, on the left log settings, in log type enable all possible options, save, accept changes, generate some traffic (e.g. go to different sides) and then use the Save log button file to local hard drive save the log to your computer's disk and view it. After the experiment, set the log type to the same configuration as before, let the router not get unnecessarily tired .

Sajani · Answer

Earlier, I accidentally found here a topic that there are programs that allow you to save the history of users, but I missed it somewhere. The log saved by the admin panel does not tell me much ... No useful information.

VooVoo · Answer

Not really - in the belkin router the log contained a local IP and the port number it was on, now I turned on logging on my router, and I will boast of the logs tomorrow :) EDIT: A few lines from the linksys router logs: Code: text Expand Select all Copy to clipboardWed, 2012-02-22 06:58:52 - Upnp Log: UPNP ACTION: adding port mapping IntIP 192.168.1.13 IntPort 42930 ExtIP xxx.xxx.xxx.108 ExtPort 42930 Proto TCP Wed, 2012-02-22 07:22:46 - Upnp Log: UPNP ACTION: deleting port mapping IntIP 192.168.1.12 IntPort 49090 ExtIP xxx.xxx.xxx.108 ExtPort 49090 Proto UDP Wed, 2012-02-22 07:22:46 - Upnp Log: UPNP ACTION: deleting port mapping IntIP 192.168.1.12 IntPort 49090 ExtIP xxx.xxx.xxx.108 ExtPort 49090 Proto TCP Wed, 2012-02-22 07:22:47 - Upnp Log: UPNP ACTION: adding port mapping IntIP 192.168.1.12 IntPort 49090 ExtIP xxx.xxx.xxx.108 ExtPort 49090 Proto UDP

salmon · Answer

How would I tell you this - this is not traffic logging, but the operation of the UPnP module - automatically adding / removing port forwarding to a specific host in the local network. The client of this service is sewn in, for example, in Skype, uTorrent, etc.

VooVoo · Answer

I guess that's what the author of the topic meant - I got the impression that someone was browsing a lot on the web and the question was whether he was browsing the pages or cluttering the link, e.g. with torrents :) Edit: I rather meant this entry:

salmon · Answer

I guess it wasn't really that and taking into account the fact that the configuration of the port itself does not say much and that only a small percentage of applications have the need and possibility of using UPnP, it misses the concept stated in the first post see what exactly it did ...

Sajani · Answer

So what, there is no such possibility? I tried to install tomato but I don't know why I can't do it ....

Anonymous · Answer

Col. salmon well right, there is no such functionality on the original software. Tomato is not compatible with this hardware. If you have a router version A1 or B1 you can play DD-WRT. You can find the device version on the sticker underneath. You'll get options to preview more:

piterus99 · Answer

I do not recommend using any non-original software - loss of warranty, possible problems that you cannot deal with - why do you add problems? And anyway, you can't save logs in the router - there is simply no place for it.

If you have the impression that someone is using your connection, change the network access password (not to the router) and that's it.

Anonymous · Answer

Without exaggeration, DD-WRT can be uploaded to this router. You can also choose the Polish interface. Compared to DD-WRT, the soft of the manufacturer is very unfortunate.

With the loss of the warranty, there is nothing to be hysterical about, yet no one has refused to repair my complaint for this reason. In equipment of such a low value, the manufacturer does not play with repairs, but exchanges for a new one.

salmon · Answer

You can, but what for? What will it bring to the topic discussed in this thread? Few. The log will cover a small - current - scope, and certainly not the historical one, as I understand it by the author ...

Anonymous · Answer

Firstly, you can choose the level and scope of logging, and secondly, there is also DD-WRT in the mini version, which can be used instead of the full version, so that there are more free resources, although this is redundant, because you can get the ability to send logs at specific intervals (before they are overwritten) to the e-mail, I even have such a script somewhere.

And most importantly, the logs will also be in the form of url, not just ip.

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