Good afternoon. I have a Netgear branded Wireless-N router that I am directly attached to via CaT5e cable. The Wireless is available to the other residents in the home, one of whom feels the need to use bit torrent to pirate films. He has been asked, then instructed to cease & desist, but does not feel the need to do so. So as to avoid liability for his illegal activity, I would like to specifically block BitTorrent traffic at the Router itself (port blocking, iirc; apologies, I've been out of the IT field since 2003, so a lot of this feels new to me again). Is this possible, and if so, how? What configuration changes do I make in the router's setup? Thank you.
How to block utorrent on my a Netgear wnr2000v3 wireless router? Can someone please tell me how to block u torrent on my wireless netgear wnr2000v3 router? I think it's extremely selfish one of the roommates torrents, and ruins it for 3 other people. I would block their IP, but that's unfair. Please tell me how. Torrent downloading is peer to peer, you can not block it without 3rd party software or firewall system. I would recommend below solutions: Instead of blocking torrent, you may just enable bandwidth rate limit(QOS) in your router. So torrent won’t consume most bandwidth. Open your router's configuration page. If the sites you want to block aren't encrypted, you can usually block them using your router's built-in tools. To access these, open the router's configuration page in a web browser on a computer that's connected to your network. Enter your router's login information. Bit Torrent starts at Port 6881 to Port 6999. You would need to block that entire port range to stop all access thru bit torrent clients This link shows how to Open specific ports, but you would Block them from the same menu. Just input the Port Range and click on DENY. Your Netgear router uses numbered ports to allow or disallow specific types of traffic to your computer. Some games or programs requires port forwarding to behave optimally.
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