The original post: /r/homenetworking by /u/LadyBitchBitch on 2024-12-26 20:48:12.

So I got into a fight with my “ethical hacker” neighbor over a tree boundary. We live in the forest and there are barely any other houses around, none are nearby except this one neighbor. Since the fight, my wifi doesn’t work at all (I have to use Ethernet only) and neither do my WiFi cams. Long story short, I have figured out the cams are being deauthed. Both 2.4 and 5 ghz don’t work.

Netspot shows me the neighbor has 100-200 different routers (mostly hidden) connected at any given time. I’m assuming most of these are a computer program and not actual routers. I can tell they belong to the neighbor by walking around my yard with my laptop, as the signal is 59-70 for all of these 100’s of signals. Neighbors that live farther away don’t show up at all, unless I drive past their house with Netspot on my laptop, meaning I have confirmed they’re too far away to see from inside my home. So I contact the FCC (regarding the interference) and the FBI (regarding the deauthing) and long story short, they couldn’t possibly care any less. Local police also were useless when they came out, I showed them everything, and the police computer guy said what they’re doing is a denial of service attack (from watching Wireshark) and that it’s a federal offense. So they tell me the FBI will help and the circle of no help at all continues as the FBI never responses to my phone calls or reports I filed on their website.

So now…when I connect to my cellular hotspot on my iPhone for things that need temporary WiFi, the signal of my hotspot (which used to read from 10-20 inside my own home) is now 59-70, the exact same signal range as my neighbors 100’s of hidden routers. So the neighbors signals are now stronger than my own signal, inside my house, sitting right next to the laptop with my iPhone.

So my question is, is it possible that they’ve set up a server nearby or something and all my connections and data are being seen by them, even if they’re not connecting their devices to my hotspot? I don’t understand why my signal inside my own home has gone from 10-20 to 59-70 unless something nefarious is going on?