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| Thread ID: 122333 | 2011-12-15 21:41:00 | File Sharing ... Need help to stop student uploading with Chinese P2P programme | SP8's (9836) | Press F1 |
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| 1248873 | 2011-12-15 21:41:00 | Sorry for the second post again this morning peoples. We have a Chinese student staying with us over the Christmas / New Year break and I've been watching our internet usage .... our upload usage has gone through the roof ... like Download usage 900MB - Upload 2 ~ 3GB :angry ... He's not a bad kid and I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he's not doing it deliberately - (maybe) Now ... I have found the programme and the can manually switch of the specific "process" through task manager on his computer, however, every time he restarts his computer (daily) the "process" starts again and runs in the background. The "process" is part of a larger programme called QQ which is very common in China ... a bit like MSN Messenger here, but with the ability to download and upload music, video etc. The "process" in task manager is QQPCNetFlow.exe Is there any way I can block that particular service from operating permanently either on his computer or from mine via firewall or whatever ... he's connected via wireless network ??? Thanks in advance for any assistance. |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1248874 | 2011-12-15 21:48:00 | It'll probably have to be done in the router. Block the ips it uses or something. I wouldnt let him on the net | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1248875 | 2011-12-15 21:55:00 | I'm with Speedy, do it at the router level to make sure it's blocked. Get Gargoyle or Tomato firmware on a router, and it's easy to block all P2P / torrent traffic types... REAL easy, and it works brilliantly too!! So well, that I couldn't even get around it, even with a Seedbox, it blocked access to that too :p |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1248876 | 2011-12-15 22:09:00 | Hi Chill ... the thread you locked was actually related to this one ... I tried to explain further but was locked out. With the students computer in Chinese, I needed a way to read things in English ... the download was recommended to me me by a previous student who had excellent English and came via a Chinese site. I wasn't sure about whether it was dodgy or not. Thanks for the advice anyway ... I've been trying to hold off getting a new router but seems as though this is going to be the only way I can stop it happening. |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1248877 | 2011-12-15 22:15:00 | Maybe he Just doesn't understand. I don't know about China but a lot of countries dont have capped data plans so people have no Idea of the usage of their software. Surely this program can be disabled or removed from startup while he's here. when I use Utorrent (legitimately of course) I limit the upload speed severely, people may consider it leeching But I pay for that usage. Funny story there, was trying to download some free software during telstra's uncapped weekend and Cnet kept timing out, Utorrent got the software in a couple of minutes. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1248878 | 2011-12-15 22:25:00 | This students English isn't that good and, as previously mentioned, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and believe he doesn't understand ... but it is a problem that is facing AFS Host Families. Our daughter went to Japan a couple of years ago through AFS and we feel obligated to return the favour. It's just bloody difficult;t trying to explain with the language barrier and not being able to read Asian languages. Never mind ... I'll get a new router and maybe Chill might instruct me how to set it up properly ... it may be a bit above my pay grade ... :D |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1248879 | 2011-12-15 22:27:00 | The easiest would be reduce their rental, you can reduce the cap and use it for yourself. The student can get a 2nd phone line into their room and get a ADSL plan. If you have a spare router, you can loan it. Many have monthly pay as you go a month in arrears. One way if possible could be provide them a daily allowance and then the speed is reduced ..... Yeah a no. of countries have unlimited internet plans incl Mobile Broadband. Just saying ... would a student react if they are not able to access a particular site :confused: I can understand reduced activity but it being blocked ..... |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1248880 | 2011-12-15 22:32:00 | Telecom has a affordable 60GB plan. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1248881 | 2011-12-15 22:51:00 | Our DLINK router has a setting which allows you to block keywords or URL's of a website. | sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1248882 | 2011-12-15 23:24:00 | you could use something like NetLimiter Pro 3.0.0.11 (www.netlimiter.com) to reduce the upload of those particular processes (rather than block them altogether, which you can also do with this proggy if you really want to tho) 1 or 2 kB/s would take forever to upload any significant amount even 24/7 lol |
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