Blocking someone from using torrents

[Lightning]

Someone in the household is hogging all the bandwidth for torrents. I own a N66U asus router. How do I use it to block him from seeding/leeching?

[X1XNobleX1X]

Someone in the household is hogging all the bandwidth for torrents. I own a N66U asus router. How do I use it to block him from seeding/leeching?

Can't you just tell them to not torrent?

[Rheinwasser]

talk to the person.

[Lightning]

talk to the person.

Already did that.

[ZacDaMan72]

Ports of bittorrent are dynamic. It also use port 80 and 443 for downloading. So it's impossible to block bittorrent by blocking a certain ports.

 

To block bittorrent, an application layer internet filter program(WFilter or websense) is required.

[Sauron]

Already did that.

 

Turn off wifi or set a password that this person does not know. If your router supports it you can use quality of service settings to throttle his device's connection into the ground.

[dalekphalm]

Someone in the household is hogging all the bandwidth for torrents. I own a N66U asus router. How do I use it to block him from seeding/leeching?

You could use the ASUS web gui to limit his computer's upload and download with a hard limit.

 

You can do this using the QoS user defined rules in most ASUS routers. I believe yours is included.

 

No need for advanced applications or additional devices.

 

However for it to work properly, you may need to fully setup QoS, which can sometimes take a while to go through everything.

[TheBanishedGio]

Block them from your internet

[dalekphalm]

Block them from your internet

VERY useful advice /s

 

As "funny" as these answers are, that's entirely impractical. He's just going to block one of his siblings from ever using the Internet again? Good luck selling that with his parents.

[dzonidev]

Someone in the household is hogging all the bandwidth for torrents. I own a N66U asus router. How do I use it to block him from seeding/leeching?

 

Just throttle him like a sir. You want to do ARP Binding and then slap some miserable down/up speed. Torrent traffic is a bitch to deal with. Unless you have an advanced router where you can do fancy rules for certain traffic. Actually try using the Asus Intelligent QoS and lower P2P traffic to minimum.

 

Another idea, on the firewall restrict any domain with pirate, torrent, etc.. How to prevent torrents? Make them useless.

[FruitBasketSilex]

Hit them in the face with a hammer. That should do it.

My morbid humor aside. You might be able to block his favorite site via the router. Just block off tpb.as/kat.ph and see if that works.