Identifying peer to peer activity

[#1]

Hi
For the first time, my internet activities is showing peer to peer. Is there any way of identifying what that is? I want to ensure that none of the kids are doing file sharing, but it could be Iplayer, or possibly a game download (eg wow)
Is there any way I can just disable peer to peer at plusnet end? There are 5 pc's in use here, so doing it at this end would be time consuming.

[#2]

Hi
You can stop peer to peer at a stroke
Go to https://portal.plus.net/surf/, sign in and activate surf, reboot your router or sign off and sign back on in the router's control panel and P2P will be blocked.
I should point out that only the standard ports are blocked.
HTH

[#3]

Thanks for that - done. Will that also block other applications that are not listed (ie do they all use similar ports - azeureus for example
I would still like to find out what the P2P activity was though if that is possible.

[#4]

As far as I know yes.
As for as your P2P activity, you don't run 4 on Demand or Demand 5 do you as these install a sneaky little peer to peer server process called KService which helps C4/five reduce its bandwidth bill by using yours to serve programs you download to others.

[#5]

If the traffic is being classed by PN then 4 on Demand and iplayer are classed as streaming not P2P.

[#6]

Thought outbound traffic from the KService (if he has 4oD installed and programmes downloaded) would be classed as P2P because it would be serving the nearest peer trying to obtain that program

[#7]

I use both iplayer and 4oD and my P2P useage have never been more than 0  but my streaming is high.

[#8]

My streaming has been high of late, lots of iPlayer.

[#9]

Not too sure if I have this absolutely correct but if you just watch iplayer/itv catchup, etc., it would be streaming only but if you download to your PC for viewing later then it would become peer2peer (as techguy said in order to reduce the host bandwidth).

[#10]

The download service is also under streaming, HTH
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[#11]

Thanks for the clarification _CN_, but why are the downloads not classed as p2p?

[#12]

Hi _CN_
Is any upstream serving of downloaded programmes classified as p2p?

[#13]

Quote from: techguy

Is any upstream serving of downloaded programmes classified as p2p?

Hi,  Up/Down all Streaming

[#14]

Quote from: Mav

Thanks for the clarification _CN_, but why are the downloads not classed as p2p?

Hopefully the comms guys can give you that answer, I'm not sure to be honest