Minimize torrent download speed

RouterOS General
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Hi All,

  1. I want to minimize the download speed for all users (example 1 kbps / 2 kbps) only at the time of download torrent movies, files etc.

  2. I want to block voice chat on yahoo, Skype, MSN for some users.

Please suggest how to do it.

Thank you

Mike

2

you can’t slow down torrents, only block them. use the firewall filters with l7 matchers:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/L7

3

opps i hope some day we can reduce download speed in a torrent download.

4

no you can’t, because torrent traffic is encrypted.

5

Thank you guys for answer of my 1st question.

Please give me some idea - I want to disable voice chat from Yahoo, MSN, Skype for some user.

Is this possible through Mikrotik.


Thanks

Mike

6

it’s not possible too. Skype is not less encrypted than Torrent =)

7

the only solution for a really paranoid network would be to force everyone to use a custom proxy port (not transparent) and block everything else. also you could allow access only to certain websites.

8

Can’t I classify bittorrent using L7 in mangle, and then put it in a queue limited to my desired values?

9

It’s propably easier to give higher priority to traffic you can identify and give lower to anything else…

10

you cannot classify encrypted traffic - encrypted traffic is just garbage with no patterns

you can mark all known traffic and suppose that all the rest is torrents, skypes, etc., and limit it