Blocking ports with linksys wireless router

[boi]

My roomate keeps using bittorrent and causes router stability problems. He wont listen to me after telling him to stop using it. I figured by blocking the ports that bittorrent uses(6881-6999 I believe). I looked through the setup menus and don't understand how to block ports. How do I block ports in the Linksys setup? thanks!

wrt54g

 

[Goosemaster]

It really depends on your firmware. I would read the manual

For BT, btw, for when you figure it out, block port 40000-65535 for both TCP and UDP.

 

[WackyDan]

You could also forward those ports to a non-existant ip on your network. I'm not sure that would work, but would probably hose his BT client.

 

[nweaver]

yeah, lock him out and forward all those ports to a nonused IP

 

[aceO07]

Some BT clients can allow the user to pick any port. It might be a hard one to track down.

Not sure if this would apply to you, with some older wrt54g routers you can install DD-WRT firmware and add features like QOS. That should slow him down a lot and make sure you still have some bandwidth to go smoothly.

 

[InlineFive]

QoS on a WRT54G can be a little shaky, especially with lots of connections. I think that WackyDan's suggestion is probably best as it would impact the WRT54G the least.

 

[boi]

Thanks guys, it worked. =) u guys are awesome.