EggXpert

Hi!

 Here is the setup...

Satellite internet --> WRT310N --> 802.11b AP --> About 10 - 15 wireless users

 
We are exceeding our available bandwidth within a few days, and I believe it's because of people downloading music, movies, etc. The internet access I provide is for EMail and work related research only. Is there a way of blocking all P2P, messaging, iTunes, etc, programs from operation without physically touching their computers? They use personal computers, so some type of NetNanny program wont work. It needs to be network level.

Any ideas you might have would be a huge help.

Thanks!
 

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Yea, block all of the ports except 80 and 8080. Along with other ports that Email (such as outlook) uses. That'll cut down on bandwidth.

You could also have a linux computer act as a router-firewall, that'd give you alot of control. In any case, look in the router configuration to see what block/allow options you have.

A Linux router would sound good. You can also use websense to perform filtering on websites and other traffic.

Another option is to get a hardware firewall and set up blocking on that. Cisco ASAs are popular on the market. You can set up access-lists to only allow web, email, etc out to the internet.

 

 

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