I have a small network of 3 PC's in my home. One of them is a wireless laptop, so I keep a wireless router in the network with WPA-PSK security on it. For the past couple of weeks my cable internet, coming in on a non-wireless router was flaky. Tonight, for some reason my phone, and laptop would not connect to my wireless router. "Wrong shared key". So I reset the wirelss router and redid my keys. Problem solved.
Here is the good part.
As I go to connect to a wireless network, I see my choices.
Mine (secure), Neighbor1 (secure), Neighbor2(open), RandomSSID (open).
I can now connect to Mine and RandomSSID. Neighbor2 and RandomSSID are both throwing 2 signal bars and dissapear and come back together. I am guessing they are one in the same physical routers.
OK so I connect to RandomSSID and surf to MyIP and then run a WhoIs on it. It's a Netherlands IP called CREW-RIPE.
Why is a router in the Netherlands, two signal bars away from my house? And why can I not connect to Neighbor2 but I can connect to RandomSSID which is probably the same router?
Has my Neighbor2's router been hacked? He is fairly famous, and is never home or I would approach him about it, he is not a techy guy so I doubt he has any knowledge of this.