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Looking for pre-made HotSpot router with traffic filtering
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timmerk
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Feb 18, 2009, 09:00 PM
 
A local restaurant owner asked me to set up a wireless network for his restaurant a few months ago. Everything had been going well, but now there are always 10+ people downloading 100 movies off of BitTorrent at the same time. The internet connection is only a DSL, so it affects legit users from browsing the web (google takes 5+ minutes to load). The router I installed doesn't have traffic shaping or protocol blocking.

Anyone know where I can find a cheap pre-made HotSpot router that can block LimeWire/BitTorrent/etc easily? Or at least can block everything expect HTTP data? I looked into OpenWRT and all the related projects, but unfortunately it seems too complicated for me to set up. I need a plug-n-play router with a simple web GUI to turn on the blocking. Hopefully under $200.

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Feb 18, 2009, 09:13 PM
 
What router do you have that doesn't have the ability to block certain ports (i.e. a firewall)?

Any consumer router (Apple, Belkin, Linksys, etc.) would do the trick.

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Feb 18, 2009, 09:15 PM
 
Unfortunately, BitTorrent clients use any port, so blocking the standard range for BitTorrent doesn't work. I need something that can inspect that actual traffic, or just limit traffic to port 80.
     
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Feb 18, 2009, 09:20 PM
 
You should be able to set up a firewall rule to block everything except port 80 (you'd probably want email ports open, too; see http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/port-table.html). What router do you have?

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Feb 18, 2009, 09:25 PM
 
D-Link DSL-2640B
     
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Feb 18, 2009, 09:45 PM
 
Page 40 of the manual (ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Broadband/dsl264...Manual_100.zip) shows you exactly how to do this.

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