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Smart kids bypass my security
My foster son (10 yr old) has just come up with a way to stay up all night, thwarting my efforts to impose bedtime shut-off of all devices. Would appreciate knowing if my suspicions are correct. Bo...
vtdave wrote:One thing that would be helpful to someone in my position would be for the ORBI app to have a list of all devices that have been on the network, with the option of disallowing them from online status if they just reappear to the network. Let's say his phone pops up at 3 am, and I have set that phone to be refused network access. That would solve my sneaky kid issue.
I like the Guest connectio idea, because it is relatively easy to turn Guest "on" and "off". In regard to the specific question (underlined),
there are two ways that information would be available:
- The Orbi does maintain a list of devices which have been "seen". It is on the Advanced Tab->Security->Access Control. Below the list of devices which are currently on the network is a section of devices which were allowed, but are not currently present.
- The Orbi logs every time an IP address is assigned to a device.
The key to both of these resources is the WiFi MAC address of the phone. Using Access Control, however, is more tedious than simply turning Guest on or off.
Alas, nothing about this is "automatic."