How to stop P2P programs in my house.

Hey guys, long time no see.
Im at uni living in a house with 12 people - and they love P2P programs.
This totally bogs down the network and hinders work - if they didnt do it when out surfing or whatever would be a help, but alas, that encourages them to download more... woohoo.

Well, its running through a sitecom router (2 wired, 8 wireless, 2 not connected yet) to a cable modem.

I have tried port blocking but the problem with most modern day P2P is that they "port hop" finding new unblocked ports - I cannot block them all!

Im unsure what you guys postion is on p2p is, but i find it irritating and illegal. I have already sweeped 3 house pcs with av software for they downloaded malware and moaned "it aint working".. Im fed up.

So what can i do? Is there any programs that can activly hunt and kill programs trying to p2p - this includeds things like bit torrent.

Any help will be brill - if im lucky this message will send of by christmas...

(and yes, i have tried talking to them)

Lenny

 

yea p2p is gay, they should be using bittorrent instead and sharing files thru CDs or winblows networking....network neighboorhood or whatever.

but i dono of anything that does that...and you CAN block all the ports, just enable the ones that you need like HTTP and FTP and what not. i know there are programs that can put limits on a users bandwitdth, but im pretty sure thats client-side....aka it has to be on their computers....unless like you convince them they need the program or somethin...say it downloads free porn or something. then 'set it up' for them. ;D

haha. that...might...work. ^.^

 

Or you could try blocking their IP's when their out as a last resort and unblock it when they return so as far as they know their downloads just slowed up for a bit

 

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Yes, P2P programs suck. You have a problem with 3 or 4 students on your home connection? Imagine around 300 students all using P2P at once. Now THAT is a problem. We've had to disconnect users because they were BitTorrenting so much they would lock up the network equipment. Not only that but P2P software brings in worms which also bring the network to it's knees, and then 300 students complain that they have no connection and it's THEIR OWN STUPID FAULT.

Sorry, just had to have an on topic rant there

But what I think we're going to do is employ some traffic shaping with our load balancing equipment, but unfortunately this will only affect outgoing connections and won't slow down all the UDP chatter on the internal network which is causing us problems.