No one can do that, not even government agencies.  There is something else
going on.  Perhaps there is another WiFi network open.     You can set up
most routers to only "talk" to a white list of physical devices.   Then he
does not even see your network.     There is no way to guess a WEP password
so quickly so he must be doing something else.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:44 AM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 13 September 2020 05:18:16 Chris Albertson wrote:
>
> > You could prevent this by not using "password" or "123" as your
> > network password.
> >
> Aww, come on guy, even I know better than that, I can change the wpsk2 pw
> to any random 26+ char phrase, and his phone can hack it in 30 seconds
> or less.  I've played whack a mole with him several times, but I always
> wind up just turning the radio off.  Using dd-wrt, and all hardwired, no
> one I didn't give the credentials to has gotten in, in nearly 16 years
> now.  There are 2 ways I can route the wifi, to me, or to the network,
> so I don't enable the "to me". I have it set, when its on, to allow
> network access over a wifi path, but not to me.
>
> > I don't enable the wifi. I have a neighbor that will use 100gb a month
> >
> > > using my bandwidth instead of his with his smartphone.  So all my
> > > networking is hard wired.
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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