I think this is a little confused. Unless your WiFi is open someone seeing your network can’t find out what the WAN IP is.
And getting your ip can connect the people directly to your box
“Connect” is a strong word here. Yeah, they can send traffic at it. But that shouldn’t do anything.
A trace route command to this IP could return intermediate equipment of your isp, helping to pinpoint your town or even your street.
This is the most reasonable concern. Depending on your ISP and location the IP itself or packet tracing you can get a pretty good idea of the user’s location.
I don’t know for you but, by default, all our ISP box here broadcast an “open” SSID that allows any customers of this ISP to login with their ISP credentials on the ISP box around them (except if the customers switch off this function). That allow a customer with a dead box or in travel to still have internet. (traffic is of course segregated).
So if you know the ISP brand via the IP range and find a isolated home with this provider ssid visible, you found the address of the IP. Again that work only with low number of houses or not often use ISP.
Connect for me is not connected like a logon but more in term of network connection (pinged).
I think this is a little confused. Unless your WiFi is open someone seeing your network can’t find out what the WAN IP is.
“Connect” is a strong word here. Yeah, they can send traffic at it. But that shouldn’t do anything.
This is the most reasonable concern. Depending on your ISP and location the IP itself or packet tracing you can get a pretty good idea of the user’s location.
I don’t know for you but, by default, all our ISP box here broadcast an “open” SSID that allows any customers of this ISP to login with their ISP credentials on the ISP box around them (except if the customers switch off this function). That allow a customer with a dead box or in travel to still have internet. (traffic is of course segregated).
So if you know the ISP brand via the IP range and find a isolated home with this provider ssid visible, you found the address of the IP. Again that work only with low number of houses or not often use ISP.
Connect for me is not connected like a logon but more in term of network connection (pinged).