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.
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.