How to Block utorrent!!

bronco1980 · Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:12 pm

Hi guys,
pls can u help me block utorrent, because it's consuming a lot of bandwith in our network..

Regards,

n21roadie · Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:52 pm

Hi guys,
pls can u help me block utorrent, because it's consuming a lot of bandwith in our network..

Regards,

With torrents becoming more difficult to block with scripts, I have found the most effective solution is to contact the bill payer about excessive downloading, a lot of times they are unaware of this as one of their family is usually downloading torrents, failing that slow them down during peak usage hours, they have two options change their download times or find another internet service provider, another more bandwidth demanding is "Netflix" which a lot of customers do not realise streaming movies consumes bandwidth, once again communication with customers about bandwidth usage is helpful.

bronco1980 · Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:46 pm

thanks for replying man, i appreciate it..
we'll try like u said .. i guess they will not like it at all

angboontiong · Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:08 pm

i believe you should able to limit they bandwidth by the queue scheduler...
or some radius manager server which can do such option as well...

jahidhk · Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:59 pm

ros code

/ip firewall layer7-protocol
add name=BITTORRENT_ANNOUNCE regexp=^get.+announce.
add name=BITTORENT regexp="^(\\x13bittorrent protocol|azver\\x01\$|get /scrape\
    \\\?info_hash=get /announce\\\?info_hash=|get /client/bitcomet/|GET /data\
    \\\?fid=)|d1:ad2:id20:|\\x08'7P\\)[RP]\\r\\n"
/ip firewall filter
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list="Torrent Announce" \
    address-list-timeout=1h30m chain=forward comment=______Announce____ \
    disabled=no dst-address-list=!torrent_permit layer7-protocol=\
    BITTORRENT_ANNOUNCE src-address-list=!torrent_permit time=\
    0h-23h59m,sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
add action=reject chain=forward disabled=no dst-address-list=!torrent_permit \
    layer7-protocol=BITTORRENT_ANNOUNCE reject-with=icmp-network-unreachable \
    src-address-list=!torrent_permit time=\
    0h-23h59m,sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat

ajay · Sun Dec 16, 2012 3:46 pm

So above ROS code will block utorrent traffic is that correct?

snowpro · Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:00 am

it appears it would and I guess you can adjust the times in the script?

there has not been much talk about appliances like Netequalizer in a long time

I mentioned in another post that I use a script available by a Mikrotik trainer

I prefer to control the torrents and the upload rather than block it
(I will get more phone calls and complaints if I block them)

ajay · Tue Dec 25, 2012 12:16 pm

Can you please refer me to the link available by mikrotik trainer?

Yes I would also rather control the torrent than block it. Have you done that before. If yes can you please send us the code to do so.

Ajay

TheWiFiGuy · Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:11 pm

Ditto!

If anyone can point me in the right direction to the fabled script it would be great. I would rather not spend time developing and testing a solution if one can be purchased for a reasonable fee.