Block p2p downloading in my office?

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Published on 2009-11-05T06:09:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 4:43 UTC
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I work in an education office in a third world country. We pay for internet by the megabyte (no other choice) and have lately been using an incredible amount of bandwidth. This is because the office staff have found out about p2p sharing. As far as I know, Limewire is the only program they're using, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time before they discover the more general world of bittorrent.

Using only a linksys router (that I could flash), is there any way for me prevent the office from destroying our bandwidth cap by downloading personal items (against policy).

Even semi-fixes would be better than nothing.

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