[BruceCroucshs]

Hey i just need some help on blocking torrents durring certain hours. The routeri have to work with is the linksys WRT310Nv2. I know i need to keep port 80 open to use http. I have disabled the UPNP feature.

Can i do a sweep and block ports 1-79 then 81 - (whats the highest port number i can block to ? ) I think ill have to find out what all my games use to keep those ports open and hope bit and utorrent dont find them. Is there anything else i need to know? I'm pretty tired of having little to no bandwidth. I tried using QoS but that didn't seem to help at all.

[frkksptn]

No full proof way, blocking ports will only limit the up/downstream ability, if there are enough seeds and leeches then a high download can still be achieved and you have the P2P program making a high number of connections.

Your router ideally needs to be able to limit the up and downstream AND connections per LAN IP. I do this with my Draytek 2710.

QoS functions in consumer routers generally tends to be rather useless against torrent traffic, this issue was raised some time ago, I recall forum members here being quite blunt to me about QoS being able to do everything.

[casinobonuscxz]

torrent software has scheduling options. have you tried them?

[frkksptn]

I'm sure by the way his post is worded that he has inconsiderate jackasses sharing his network

[casinobonuscxz]

I'm sure by the way his post is worded that he has inconsiderate jackasses sharing his network

If its his router, then he should kick them off.

[CHEAPPoem]

Hey i just need some help on blocking torrents durring certain hours. The routeri have to work with is the linksys WRT310Nv2. I know i need to keep port 80 open to use http. I have disabled the UPNP feature.

Can i do a sweep and block ports 1-79 then 81 - (whats the highest port number i can block to ? ) I think ill have to find out what all my games use to keep those ports open and hope bit and utorrent dont find them. Is there anything else i need to know? I'm pretty tired of having little to no bandwidth. I tried using QoS but that didn't seem to help at all.

So, someone is downloading torrents while you are trying to do stuff during the day and you want to limit their bandwidth until off-peak?

There is a difference between incoming and outgoing ports, and they do not have to be the same. Also, not all websites use port 80 (HTTPS default is 443), also SMTP, FTP and other common protocols have their own designated ports. Without uPnP, the torrent software does not have much to do with routing unsolicited traffic, these ports have to be manually forwarded.

Unless you use brute force, you will probably not be able to fool a saavy user without a proxy.

[BruceCroucshs]

I'm sure by the way his post is worded that he has inconsiderate jackasses sharing his network

This to an extent. Its not my router its my roomates (he had to buy it b/c mine wasnt compatible with a stupid mac). His router my modem. I take care of the internet but we split the costs equally between 5 people.

The problem is theres lots of use goin on. Netflix, youtube, torrents, downloads and our max dl speed is 600 kb/s between 5 soon to be 4 people. It seems once my roomate goes on netflix with his ps3 everything on my side goes to ****. Yet while this happens my other roomate is not affected as greatly as me.

and when the netflix is going with someone else on a torrents well theres no hope. I have already explained to them about uploading and we have all turned down the uploads (sorry pirate community).

I'm just looking for a way to stop the torrents during the day and possibly alot 1/5 of the available bandwidth to each person.

we are all pretty much the same distance away from the router and ill have full bars just horrible speeds.

Edit: they are not technologically saavy people. i can mess with the router as much as i want. I have already sed upload speeds on their torrent programs but i figure if i set a download speedthey will change it and probably change more and mess everything up.

So with upnp disabled theoretically the torrent program should be dead?

[DzjwMKo5]

I've setup QoS on my router, basically instead of limiting other users, you allocate a minimum amount of bandwidth to one (the ps3 in your case), and it gives bandwidth a priority towards it, and when it's not in use, none of the other machines are affected.

[BruceCroucshs]

I've setup QoS on my router, basically instead of limiting other users, you allocate a minimum amount of bandwidth to one (the ps3 in your case), and it gives bandwidth a priority towards it, and when it's not in use, none of the other machines are affected.

So i should give my roomate an allocation of bandwidth so that I dont experience slow downs? Or do you mean i should allocate it to myself? With this router it only reserves upstream bandwitdth


my downs speeds are 600kb/s and ups are approx 50-60 kb/s. i can get an actually reading from cnet or another site. Should i give him/me 40kb/s?