What exactly is the problem caused by bitTorrent? Are torrents
saturating the link causing latency for others? Is it an issue with a
monthly cap being reached because of torrents? Is it a legal issue?
In the past, an improperly configured torrent application on my room
mate's computer saturated the link. I experienced lost packets, slow
download, etc. The application was accepting more connections than my
router could handle, and it was configured to use all of the available
upload bandwidth, which in turn decreased our download speed. The
quick fix was for me to reconfigure it. Switching my WRT54GL router to
Tomato has also helped in term of performance.
So, I would suggest to teach clients how to properly configure their
torrent application or do it for them. If that's not possible, I would
look into making sure that you have a router that can handle a decent
load. I wouldn't recommend a home router for 12 users for example. I
would also look into having a router with nice and detailed logs so
you can know who's hogging the bandwidth and doing what. You could
also look into QoS to prioritize packets so that a few important
protocols always come first. Then, there's always throttling each IP.
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Ravnox
Quoting George Stoynev <[email protected]>:
Hi all,
does anyone knows of effective way to block torrents altogether in a home
network? Friends of mine are struggling with this and asked me to help.
They provide Wi-Fi for their renters, have control over the modem and
router, but none over clients.
From what I know and have read the only somewhat effective way is to have
deep packet inspection firewall, which also doesn't work well against
encrypted torrent traffic. Port blocking doesn't work (but will isolate the
most computer savvy clients), OpenDNS didn't work as well, blacklisting
websites helps until some extent but is easy to bypass. The budget is
limited but they would buy equipment if necessary (SOHO grade).
My idea is to start with setting up one Raspberry Pi between the modem and
the router. The Pi will act as proxy or L-7 firewall. There are two
unknowns here:
1. would the Pi be powerful enough to handle the traffic;
2. what would be the best software for this purpose;
Second option is to install DD-WRT or similar to compatible router and try
to do the firewalling from there. As advantage, I could split the Wi-Fi on
multiple SSIDs, which will isolate the offenders.
I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions/recommendations/ideas.
Thank you,
George Stoynev
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