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What does blocking access control do?
I've gone into the Orbi admin and set my Smart TV to BLOCKED under Access Control. But I want to be sure that this setting is accomplishing what I specifically want it to do, which is to block my...
Thanks. What service should I choose to block for this smart TV in order to prevent it from accessing the wider internet while allowing me to still access it from within the network?
And yes I'm turning my smart TV into a dumb one because I want to prevent it from automatic content recognition and other ad-tracking traffic back to the manufacturer.
mrsubtraction wrote:Thanks. What service should I choose to block for this smart TV in order to prevent it from accessing the wider internet while allowing me to still access it from within the network?
Edit the default that is already showing, "Any", ports 1-65xxx, and put in the IP address of the tv.
That seems to work, thank you so much!