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Orbi WiFi 6 no parental controls
So I am really surprised and honestly upset that the new WiFi 6 orbi does not have any parental controls whatsoever even though the website clearly states that it does. Is this a short sided mistake t...
The parent controls! Netgear’s website is full of advertising they have Circle on the new wifi 6 systems. I just bought a RBX 853 and was very aggravated that parent controls were not in the Home Screen on APP. I just took down my new TPlink which has the parent controls to switch to mesh with Netgear. 4 kids on the internet won’t be using this new mesh system unless there is parent controls
They have recently added New Parental controls. i just opened my Orbi App a few days and discovered it. It's not free though. :(
- I don’t mind paying for it but, but mine is not showing yet. Just did a refresh of check for firmware update and says it’s up to date. However the firmware installed is: 3.2.18.1
I just appeared for me 2 days ago and I checked last week so, it must be slowly rolling out. I'm rather impressed with the software. I had the Google Nest mesh system before and I liked their parental controls however, this system is more feature rich and it is easy to use. The only thing that I don't care of is that I can't easily identify and rename devices connected to my system. Like most parental controls you can create profiles of users and there is a default "home" profile as well so, you can either pause the wifi for a single user or for the entire home. Along with that, they allow you create an "Always On" list of devices for IoT devices like security systems, cameras, thermostats that won't be included when you pause the entire home. The software also includes other parental controls like age dependent content filtering, device management, Time limits, usage and history tracking and a site manager to block/allow specific websites.