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How to enable connection monitoring and block-listing
How do I enable traffic monitoring and block-listing with Orbi?
Even the cheap TP-link I had before had these feature, they are rather basic, but how do I find them and operate them with an Orbi?
I can't access Traffic Management. I read elsewhere that it is greyed out on the menu because I've enabled Access Point. I can't see the logic there so I'll continue the quest.
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There are two parts to this:
- In Access Point (AP) mode, the Orbi router performs no traffic management.
No port forwarding. No port triggering. No DHCP server.
No Parental Controls.
No Site Blocking.
My understanding is that this is pretty standard when devices are set up as AP's rather than routers. - Orbi's blacklisting (not block) capabilities in router mode are pathetic.
Orbi does indeed scan URL's for prohibited words and will block web requests based on them.
BUT.. (and this is a BIG But) Orbi scans only http web requests, not httpS (secured) requests.
Now that modern browsers are fixated on preferring connections to secure web sites, not blocking https renders the situation worthless.
The people who seem happiest with their efforts at traffic management often report signing up with OpenDNS and creating filters.
I have not done so myself, so I am not aware of the particulars (and cost).
Netgear's preferred solution is their partnership with Disney Circle (which I also declined to activate).
Took me a while to locate the Netgear article on which features are not available in AP mode:
https://kb.netgear.com/000061277/Disabled-Features-on-the-Orbi-when-set-to-AP-Mode
- In Access Point (AP) mode, the Orbi router performs no traffic management.
Thanks for this FURRYe38.
The credibility of the Orbi programme management team has just taken a serious knock.
Even the guest wifi password has complexity and the main one also has good length but tha
Why would a network manager not want to know who was connected to the WiFi network, active and how active? Why would they not want to be able to block a device that was foreign or one that was known hostile? How can NETGEAR not realise that the net is hostile and that even home networks are under constant attack these days?
When a supplier as big as NETGEAR clearly doesn't give a damn about customer security, it adds to the hostility of the net and the risks we have to accept when we buy and use NETGEAR products. Even TP-link offered these features on an immature product.
As you might sense,I find this really annoying. Is this inept or is deliberate?
SmilingEddie wrote:Thanks for this FURRYe38.
Why would a network manager not want to know who was connected to the WiFi network, active and how active? Why would they not want to be able to block a device that was foreign or one that was known hostile? How can NETGEAR not realise that the net is hostile and that even home networks are under constant attack these days?
When a supplier as big as NETGEAR clearly doesn't give a damn about customer security, it adds to the hostility of the net and the risks we have to accept when we buy and use NETGEAR products. Even TP-link offered these features on an immature product.
As you might sense,I find this really annoying. Is this inept or is deliberate?
Although monitoring provided by personal line routers satisfy homeowners, any professional network manager I know would not use monitoring provided by personal line routers. They would use more sophisticated firewall and network management systems.
TP-link offers limited monitoring on some products, as an advertising tool, but it is very ineffective for a professional, but satisfying for the Novice.
if you would like to learn more about network monitoring, you can online search the many professional monitoring systems provided by Cisco and other pro network management companies.
