My torrents are encrypted over port 443 in a tunnel to a registered tracker.

But if they are using plain ol' piratebay or equivalent a box like that 
will work fine to block it.

Matthew Jenkins
SmarterBroadband
m...@sbbinc.net
530.272.4000

On 02/18/2014 11:15 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
> We do L7 QoS / shaping / filtering at our head end with a very 
> expensive IPOQUE PRX device, and explicitly block torrents. It's also 
> discussed in our ToS. The only way I've found to get around it is by 
> using a socks proxy to another country just for torrent traffic.
>
> *Josh Reynolds*
> Chief Information Officer
> SPITwSPOTS
> j...@spitwspots.com | www.spitwspots.com
>
> On 02/18/2014 10:08 AM, ~NGL~ wrote:
>> So how do you stop torrents?
>> NGL
>>
>>     *From:* Josh Reynolds <mailto:j...@spitwspots.com>
>>     *Sent:* Tuesday, February 18, 2014 11:03 AM
>>     *To:* wireless@wispa.org <mailto:wireless@wispa.org>
>>     *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Banswidth usage
>>
>>     It's kind of hard to score a touchdown when you keep moving the
>>     goal line.
>>
>>     *Josh Reynolds*
>>     Chief Information Officer
>>     SPITwSPOTS
>>     j...@spitwspots.com | www.spitwspots.com <http://www.spitwspots.com>
>>
>>     On 02/18/2014 10:00 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>>>     Sure for currently active traffic.  But I think OP is after
>>>     something a bit different.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Josh Luthman
>>>     Office: 937-552-2340
>>>     Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>     1100 Wayne St
>>>     Suite 1337
>>>     Troy, OH 45373
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Josh Reynolds
>>>     <j...@spitwspots.com <mailto:j...@spitwspots.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         ....
>>>
>>>         You're running tcpdump in an SSH session. All the data gets
>>>         displayed on the ssh client, it doesn't stay on the
>>>         nanostation or whatever device you're running.
>>>
>>>
>>>         *Josh Reynolds*
>>>         Chief Information Officer
>>>         SPITwSPOTS
>>>         j...@spitwspots.com <mailto:j...@spitwspots.com> |
>>>         www.spitwspots.com <http://www.spitwspots.com>
>>>
>>>         On 02/18/2014 09:45 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         For an hour?
>>>>
>>>>         Josh Luthman
>>>>         Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
>>>>         Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343>
>>>>         1100 Wayne St
>>>>         Suite 1337
>>>>         Troy, OH 45373
>>>>
>>>>         On Feb 18, 2014 1:30 PM, "Sam Tetherow"
>>>>         <tethe...@shwisp.net <mailto:tethe...@shwisp.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>             Not sure I understand what the problem is. I use
>>>>             tcpdump all the time on a nanostation to check traffic out.
>>>>
>>>>             On 02/18/2014 12:18 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>>>>>             How are you going to tcpdump with 16 MB of
>>>>>             memory/flash?  netstat would be pretty hard to read if
>>>>>             it's bridge mode and iptraf doesn't exist.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>             Josh Luthman
>>>>>             Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
>>>>>             Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343>
>>>>>             1100 Wayne St
>>>>>             Suite 1337
>>>>>             Troy, OH 45373
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>             On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Josh Reynolds
>>>>>             <j...@spitwspots.com <mailto:j...@spitwspots.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>                 Horsepoopy
>>>>>
>>>>>                 tcpdump / netstat / iptraf
>>>>>
>>>>>                 See, before there was Mikrotik, there was this
>>>>>                 thing called Linux. Once upon a time, people
>>>>>                 actually knew how to use it.
>>>>>
>>>>>                 *Josh Reynolds*
>>>>>                 Chief Information Officer
>>>>>                 SPITwSPOTS
>>>>>                 j...@spitwspots.com <mailto:j...@spitwspots.com> |
>>>>>                 www.spitwspots.com <http://www.spitwspots.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>                 On 02/18/2014 09:06 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>>>>>>                 If you're limited to Nanostations, you're going
>>>>>>                 to have to do a packet capture some how.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 Mikrotik would make this much much much easier.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 Josh Luthman
>>>>>>                 Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
>>>>>>                 Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343>
>>>>>>                 1100 Wayne St
>>>>>>                 Suite 1337
>>>>>>                 Troy, OH 45373
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:05 PM, ~NGL~
>>>>>>                 <n...@ngl.net <mailto:n...@ngl.net>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                     How do I check for UDP connections, I am
>>>>>>                     using Nanostations?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         *From:* Ben West <mailto:b...@gowasabi.net>
>>>>>>                         *Sent:* Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:57 AM
>>>>>>                         *To:* WISPA General List
>>>>>>                         <mailto:wireless@wispa.org>
>>>>>>                         *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Banswidth usage
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         Torrents can consume up and down
>>>>>>                         bandwidth with no limit, depending on how
>>>>>>                         the client is set up.  Do you see that
>>>>>>                         customer opening many many many UDP
>>>>>>                         connections?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:50 AM, ~NGL~
>>>>>>                         <n...@ngl.net <mailto:n...@ngl.net>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                             I have a customer that has used 19
>>>>>>                             GBytes down and 9 GBytes up in the
>>>>>>                             last 18 hours.
>>>>>>                             What does a smart TV use?
>>>>>>                             What can they be doing?
>>>>>>                             NGL
>>>>>>                                  If you can read this Thank A Teacher.
>>>>>>                             And if it's in English Thank A Soldier!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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