Wireless question

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BDillon21
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Wireless question

Post by BDillon21 »

I have a T1 line that I want to share wirelessly with my neighbors. I have checked with my provider and I won't be breaking any of their policies in doing this. My concern is with p2p file sharing. I want my neighbors to be able to use my line so we can share video files we edit and save them from paying for broadband......but I don't want one of their kids sharing music on my connection. How can I, with the existing hardware I have, make certain that no filesharing is being done?

I have a Linksys WRT54G. Clients will be using some sort of Linksys 802.11g NIC. I would like to block all outgoing traffic with the exception of needed ports, like HTTP, HTTPS, POP, SMTP, DNS, etc..... but I don't see that you can do this with the Linksys.

They have young kids in the house, and I know for a fact that IF they had a broadband connection that they would start using P2P software.
I'd also like to be able to monitor the outgoing bandwidth so that if a certain amount of upstream was used, I'd get an email so I could look in to it further......to make certain that they somehow aren't file sharing.

I'm partially paranoid about the RIAA suing me, but more important is I don't want them stealing music.

Thanks for any help in advance.
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Post by qball15j »

If you have a spare machine sitting around put two NICs in it and setup a proxy server with port filtering.
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