See if someone steals your WiFi and block it from your Android

n many occasions we see as our connection starts to lower and lower speed without apparent connection. Check router, devices, etc. Then, an idea comes to the mind, a stub shaft neighbor can be hooked to our WiFi and enjoying free Internet at our expense. While there are options to discover this from the router menus wouldn’t it be great to have an application that rat to attackers and allows us to block them in your Pocket? So as it is usual, it exists.

The application in question is called WiFiKill and, first of all, we will let know you need necessarily to operate our terminal is rooted. Made this exception, there are no more than start by downloading the application from this link to test its free version. It has many limitations, since it only works for 5 minutes at each session and which is full of advertising. The developers, who are in the orbit of the creators of the famous ROMs Paranoid, do not ask for much for the professional version, more than a donation on PayPal which, in our opinion, have well earned

The possibilities that gives the application are very interesting. Obviously the most interesting is to know if someone is connected to your local network and lock it but, also, we can see on the screen of your mobile phone the websites you have visited each of the devices connected to our WiFi, which may also have other uses, the bytes that have been consumed from each, will display us the name of these to make it easier to identify, and not only the MAC address, and, in addition, is an application that you can use from the tablet even more comfortably.

As requirements, in addition to those listed for the free application and the root, is that you need the terminal in which we are going to install have Android 4.0 or higher, which is practically all of the current terminals on the market.

How we indicate, this continues to be a way to do something that is permitted from own our router configuration. It is not of reviewing some basic rules that we should change every time the WiFi password, not to leave that default or apply a MAC address filtering so that anyone that we don’t want to connect to your local network. These tips and many more them can be found in our ADSLZone companions who, precisely, these cases have one perfect tutorials: how to avoid being stolen us Wi-Fi access.

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