blocking spotify and torrents

[webby]

right i am sick of my xbox fun lol being spoilt by my cunt of a sister refusing to hold back on downloads or streaming while i'm on.

does anybody know how to block them?
i all ready keyword block every website by blocking www.

i am on sky broadband if that makes any difference.

thanks

[Tom_Crx]

LOL quality mate, what router you got? netgear?

[AXracing]

What rougher are you using? On most you can set your priority in so just set your Xbox as top. That way it will always get first dibs on bandwidth.

[b0t13]

id personally just change the router key and get her to beg for the new one :D

[haz_pro]

Try and find out the ports that are used for torrents, and block them on the router!

Assuming these ports arnt needed for the xbox.

[PJN]

Only problem is, there isn't really a set port number for torrents, uPnP sets it, so you could turn that off. And failing that then most torrent clients just randomly assign a port number for torrents. And Spotify, I'm baffled as to how to block that, experimented blocking it with ISA Server, but it just seems it keeps on working, no matter what settings you have.

[gazwhittle]

if your using a ethernet cable and shes using wireless.

if its a netgear router log into it and disable wireless.

then re enable it when you have finished.

[Aly]

NetLimiter dude.

It's a clever program where you can limit upload and download on certain programs or on the whole PC.

I have it installed on my dads PC cause when he goes on YouTube he lags me a lot.

If you want I can find you a good Torrent link to download it

This is what it looks like:
http://www.qweas.com/downloads/network/other/scr-netlimiter.jpg

As you can see you can enter vaules for certain programs or for everything.
Also tells you how much you download and upload.

[PJN]

ooh, if that's got a bandwidth monitor built in, I'll have a copy of that, need to keep tabs when using my 3G Modem.

[webby]

It's a sagem router.
Aly problem is it's her computer and I can't touch it, any other way?
Good idea about changing the router key. Does xbox use upnp?

[PJN]

I think so, but it's not hard to manually forward the ports for it if you disable it.

Xbox LIVE requires the following ports to be open:

* TCP 80
* UDP 88
* UDP 3074
* TCP 3074
* UDP 53
* TCP 53

Straight from MS, but you can probably pass on Port 80 and Port 53 normally doesn't open cause the router auto-reserves it for DNS