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My WNR1000v3 is serving six people and two of them have decided that despite my warnings they're going to torrent heavily all day.
Not dealing with that crap I decided to reserve their IPs and set up port blocking 1000-65535 at all times of the day.
However.... looking at the log reveals that stuff is still going through. Half of the entries are saying:
[LAN access from remote] from <externalIP>:16001 to 192.168.1.7:18946 Friday, Oct 12,2012 22:47:05
and half are saying:
[Service blocked: BlockTorrents] from source 192.168.1.7, Friday, Oct 12,2012 22:46:26
Is this because of uPNP? Or does the 'block services' feature Netgear has only work with outgoing connections? Is there something that I'm missing?
If it is indeed uPNP, how could I effectively block their torrenting without hurting everyone's use of services like Skype, Playstation Network, etc.?
Block them completely in the router, no internet access for breaking your rules, but they will defy you one way or another by hard re-setting the router. No good solution I can see other than get new roommates. – Moab – 2012-10-13T17:56:04.917
A combination of blocking those ports and putting their IPs as complete lowest on QoS has effectively improved the situation. – Chauncellor – 2012-10-13T19:52:59.313