Blocking chat program’s ?

Jon_01

Anyone know if/how to block chat prog’s with a wireless router ? I’m fedup with the kids using them at night and sapping my usage…
I’ve a Belkin adsl2 (F507632-4).
I’ve google’d it and found info for denying access to the login server using ‘deny URL', but I don’t have that option in the router setup menu.

Anyone know a way ? (I can’t install anything on their pc’s, because, A: there’d get round it and B: their friends bring their laptops round so it needs to be a router fix).

Thanks…

superscaper

http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/no_chat.html

But of course if they're savvy enough they could probably just change the port settings of the chat clients. As for sapping your usage? I don't see how even using chat programs 24 hours a day would have any impact on your bandwidth.

sco0ter

Setup mac address filtering at night and just deny them access.

Jon_01

superscaper wrote: »

http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/no_chat.html

But of course if they're savvy enough they could probably just change the port settings of the chat clients. As for sapping your usage? I don't see how even using chat programs 24 hours a day would have any impact on your bandwidth.

Thats the page I'm looking at already, I can see how denying the url would work but I don't have that option in the router (unless it's called something else ?)

They swap mp3 with their friends, that where the bw is going.

Yes, I could use mac filtering, in fact, I have in the past. but sometime I forget to take it off in the morning and sometimes they need to use the web for research, which is fine (and yes, I know they could use a web client, but they couldn't send files through that).

superscaper

Well tell them to stop or take away their internet priviledges for an entire day. If they continue, do it again. They'll soon learn. May seem childish but if they act as such then you end up having to treat them as such.

MadCowMan

I'm not sure a technological fix is the way forward here - other than forcing the use of a proxy for outbound traffic ( which you can then control accordingly )- it would work , but its not a cheap or easy solution.