Could somebody suggest something to throttle utorrent traffic at home?

Say someone had a brother who was constantly consuming bandwidth using Utorrent at home. How could one throttle this traffic to make the application unusable? Could someone suggest something(free software preferably)?

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SteveLord

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

I do indeed use bittorrent for legal things on a regular basis. It's a great way of distributing software to a number of sites. Talk to Blizzard about, they use bittorrent for patches.

They have you use their own app for it. This isn't specifically about the technology itself, this is about uTorrent. And unless forced to through such means, it is entirely possible to function day to day without it.

Codeblox, the port blocking is a good start. You can always gradually open up some if they are needed for legitimate reasons.

Heero

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

If you get your account suspended for what's being downloaded, you deserve it for being a moron and not requiring encryption.

ISPs dont care about you using bittorrent, they care about when they get a dmca letter from a content owner saying your IP address was downloading some copyrighted file.

And ISPs will not drop you for a single dmca. They want your business...

Forsaken_GA

SteveLord wrote: »

They have you use their own app for it.

They use their own client, but it's still the same protocol as you use with uTorrent, Transmission, bittornado, et al.

It's also not a requirement. If you put a little effort into looking, you can find .torrent files for every patch that can be used with any bittorrent client you wish.

This isn't specifically about the technology itself, this is about uTorrent. And unless forced to through such means, it is entirely possible to function day to day without it.

uTorrent is irrelevant. It's quite easy to deal with illicit torrents with another client. There's nothing special about uTorrent that makes it's users more or less likely to be pirates. It doesn't have any unique features that make it a must have to earn your eyepatch. If all uTorrent installs stopped working tomorrow, folks would just change clients. So yeah, the discussion is about bittorrent when it comes down to it.

Codeblox, the port blocking is a good start. You can always gradually open up some if they are needed for legitimate reasons.

Again, depends on the skill of the user. It's quite simple to tunnel bittorrent traffic over any open port, though it's easier to get away with if you do it over a port that traditionally carries an encrypted protocol, like SSL or SSH.

This subject is a daily fact of life for most network operators, whether it be on the service provider scale, or the enterprise scale. After locking down every other avenue, there's still ways to get through. So now to combat it, I arm myself with my netflow reports, and have a private informal conversation with the offender. If the activity continues, then the next conversation they have about it will be just a bit more formal.

Forsaken_GA

Heero wrote: »

ISPs dont care about you using bittorrent, they care about when they get a dmca letter from a content owner saying your IP address was downloading some copyrighted file.

And ISPs will not drop you for a single dmca. They want your business...

Nope, that's why I say, you have to be an utter moron to actually get your account canceled. Most providers won't act until you rack up enough offenses to establish a pattern of behavior that will make RICO prosecutors green with envy.

ehnde

CodeBlox wrote: »

He doesn't need FTP And he only uses web based mail. Hes only getting 80 and 443 Thanks

If he plays any online games, this is likely to interfere with his ability to play.

hex_omega

ehnde wrote: »

If he plays any online games, this is likely to interfere with his ability to play.

SO then you just wait until he complains tht he can't play a certain game, and then open ports for said game after you find out what ports it needs.