Blocking p2p on a crappy Belkin router

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I have a standard Belkin cable router, with their usual crappy control software, on a crappy Virgin Media cable connection.

Anyway, I was wondering if its possible to completely drop all p2p traffic. I can block ports, and disable uPnP so that torrenting software can't map ports, but it's my understanding that some can "take over" reserved/special (1-1023) ports if they're not in use.

I'd also like to improve speeds during peak times - although I realise thats an impossibility, some type of QoS would be nice to prefer certain types of traffic (eg drop video, p2p, etc).

I have been thinking about getting a decent managed switch to enable proper network management, but for the time being this is the best I've got.
 
does your router support dd-wrt
http://www.dd-wrt.com/

You could always block all the ports except for the port 80 for web or something via your firewall. If you dont have one on your router that is configurable you can always fire up a VM and send all traffic through that before it hits your router.
 
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