My phone was cloned after letting a friend of 20 years use it and then every electronic device in my house was hacked. They are trying to steal my bitcoins. I noticed changes to my email account used for my account with the coin exchange, so I notified the exchange of the hack and they froze my account and it remains frozen until I know the hackers are gone. I live in a very remote area with my closest neighbor a quarter mile away. I know the hackers have a hidden network because it popped up on one of my computers and there’s no way it could belong to any of my neighbors because we live so far apart so I need to find their router. Any helpful instructions on how to track down a router will be greatly appreciated. I also believe they installed cameras in my home too.
You can find the location of the router by looking at the signal strength of the hidden Wi-Fi. Move around the house. If you see the strength increasing in one direction, keep moving until you see it around -40 dBm. When you see it around that number, it means that the router is hidden very close by, 2-3-4 meters away from where you stand.
for some reason my wireless connection has become hiddien, I have downloaded the above and can now see my network name on the list, however I am unsure of how to connect to it, any help guys?
You need to connect to your router via a network cable. Connect a computer with this cable to the router, login to the administration panel of the router and change its settings. Instructions for logging will be found in your router’s manual.
Useful but I guess you wont make anything out of it.
The only reason you would want to gain such info was to perhaps break in someone PC and thats when linux would be more useful.
If you would read the whole article you would get an idea on the uses of such a tool. For example, I found it very useful to learn how my network’s wireless signal evolves from room to room, in my apartment.
I will then change the position of the router so that the signal strength is more constant across rooms.
You can also use it to learn if you network is using the same channel as other networks in the area. Changing the channel will make your connection work better, with less interference from other networks.
12 Responses to “How to find hidden wireless networks (SSIDs) in your area, in Windows”
I installed Netspot but the “Hidden Network” that goes by that name is not shown in the list, what do I do ?
My phone was cloned after letting a friend of 20 years use it and then every electronic device in my house was hacked. They are trying to steal my bitcoins. I noticed changes to my email account used for my account with the coin exchange, so I notified the exchange of the hack and they froze my account and it remains frozen until I know the hackers are gone. I live in a very remote area with my closest neighbor a quarter mile away. I know the hackers have a hidden network because it popped up on one of my computers and there’s no way it could belong to any of my neighbors because we live so far apart so I need to find their router. Any helpful instructions on how to track down a router will be greatly appreciated. I also believe they installed cameras in my home too.
You can find the location of the router by looking at the signal strength of the hidden Wi-Fi. Move around the house. If you see the strength increasing in one direction, keep moving until you see it around -40 dBm. When you see it around that number, it means that the router is hidden very close by, 2-3-4 meters away from where you stand.
Stalker for five years and there is a hidden network in my house. He is crazy
this is very helpful, thank you !!
Totally stupid… By definition an hidden SSID cannot be just shown magically in the list… As it is, I let you guess, HIDDEN !
cannot find this app on google play store. where is it?
This app is not for Android. It is for Windows, and macOS X.
for some reason my wireless connection has become hiddien, I have downloaded the above and can now see my network name on the list, however I am unsure of how to connect to it, any help guys?
You need to connect to your router via a network cable. Connect a computer with this cable to the router, login to the administration panel of the router and change its settings. Instructions for logging will be found in your router’s manual.
Useful but I guess you wont make anything out of it.
The only reason you would want to gain such info was to perhaps break in someone PC and thats when linux would be more useful.
If you would read the whole article you would get an idea on the uses of such a tool. For example, I found it very useful to learn how my network’s wireless signal evolves from room to room, in my apartment.
I will then change the position of the router so that the signal strength is more constant across rooms.
You can also use it to learn if you network is using the same channel as other networks in the area. Changing the channel will make your connection work better, with less interference from other networks.