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strictmachine
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Sep 11, 2018

Orbi Parental Controls - Time Limits - Do you have to use Disney Circle ?

I'm thinking of buying the Orbi RBK50 but would like to know if you have to use the Disney Circle to control time limits or are you able to log in via a browser to the Orbi and set up time limits via the admin panel ?

 

From what I can see, you have to use Disney Circle and you can only set time limits if you subscribe to the premium version, which sucks. I don't want to pay a monthly amount just to use this functionality.

 

I would be grateful if anyone could confirm this.

 

Thanks.

 

 

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  • Christian_R's avatar
    Christian_R
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Sep 11, 2018

    Hello strictmachine, 

     

    The parental control on the Orbi admin page does not allow the user to set time limits. Disney Circle offers the feature to set time limits. 

     

     

    ~Christian 

    • strictmachine's avatar
      strictmachine
      Initiate
      Sep 11, 2018

      Thank you for your reply.

       

      And it's the premium paid for version of Disney Circle that is required ?

      • Christian_R's avatar
        Christian_R
        NETGEAR Employee Retired
        Sep 17, 2018

        strictmachine, 

         

        Sure thing! And that is correct, a premium subscription would be required to have the time limit feature included. 

         

         

        ~Christian 

  • Donnielue123's avatar
    Donnielue123
    Aspirant
    Jan 30, 2019

    I've had my Orbi for over a year and am just revisiting the parental controls. I am pretty sure I was able to set up time limits before, but now it seems users are forced into paying for Disney's Circle app to get time control functionality. Is this true? And am I correct that this was previously included in the parental control function on the router, or through openDNS before?

    • ekhalil's avatar
      ekhalil
      Master
      Jan 30, 2019
      Donnielue123 wrote:

      I've had my Orbi for over a year and am just revisiting the parental controls. I am pretty sure I was able to set up time limits before, but now it seems users are forced into paying for Disney's Circle app to get time control functionality. Is this true? And am I correct that this was previously included in the parental control function on the router, or through openDNS before?

      If you want the "Time Limits" feature you need to use Circle with the Premium subscription.

      On the other hand you can configure "access time schedules" on Orbi, if this is what you want then please have a look here how you can set this up: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-RBK-50-AC3000-Access-rules/m-p/1689441/highlight/true#M49763