Thank for that Yelvertoft.
I also thought of the following:-
MAC address filtering
Disabling DHCP
Changing router IP address regularly
Sadly I cannot move the router across the opposite side of the house, I would need wires for that and would negate the wireless principle. The routers current position is on the back wall nearest to my attackers. There is a radiator in the way so may offer some shielding.
2mW was too low for certain positions downstairs and I have had to increase power to 5mW to get service all over the house.
How essential is wireless internet?
I use it every evening for about four hours on and off so the other 20 hours the router could be off - Hack that one!
These guys were not simply using my Internet they were occupying 90% of my bandwidth slowing me down substantially. I guess they could have been using a peer to peer service to share files illegally.
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