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My kid by-passed device being blocked!!!!
Hi all - interesting disclosure today from my 10year old. So as every parent will understand, sometimes you have to punish for bad behaviour. Well one of those punishments is restricting access to the internet via the orbi app. Well it worked fine until my 10year old worked out that if you “forget the network” and then uses her sisters device to reconnect, then you don’t need your parents to gain internet access!!!! Any solutions?
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Frisp wrote:
Well one of those punishments is restricting access to the internet via the orbi app. Well it worked fine until my 10year old worked out that if you “forget the network” and then uses her sisters device to reconnect, then you don’t need your parents to gain internet access!!!! Any solutions?Blocked how? How did you set this up on the Orbi app?
Netgear offers various tools for parental controls.
Circle Smart Parental Controls - NETGEAR Communities
or
NETGEAR Smart Home Parental Controls - NETGEAR Communities
They do need a subscription.
If your one child is connecting to the sisters device, then there is no way for NG to control that. You'd need to control the sisters device as well.
Frisp wrote:
Hi all - interesting disclosure today from my 10year old. So as every parent will understand, sometimes you have to punish for bad behaviour. Well one of those punishments is restricting access to the internet via the orbi app. Well it worked fine until my 10year old worked out that if you “forget the network” and then uses her sisters device to reconnect, then you don’t need your parents to gain internet access!!!! Any solutions?
FURRYe38 wrote:If your one child is connecting to the sisters device, then there is no way for NG to control that. You'd need to control the sisters
I think he means using the sister's phone to share wifi password. 🙂
Do you use the standard access control on the Orbi app for the blocking? It's weired that once the device disconnect/detach from Orbi the access control disappears and you need to configure it again? As mentioned by michaelkenward you might want to try the new smart parental control in the Orbi app, where you can have the MAC addresses of all devices of the kid stored under his/her name and you will then be able to control all the devices by one single click. You will also be able to configure a schedule for the access, so you can allow access for few hours during the day, .....
Possible or the phone is connecting to the sisters phone and getting internet that way....
