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Genie - Parental Controls, cannot change settings on individual devices in the network map
I set the default for parental controls to High during initial setup on the router. Then in the network map area, I tried to change the settings per user device, but when I click apply, the settings ...
I tried the steps outlined above.
1. Set all the 'controlled' devices to be the - Default Level on Router.
2. Set all the parent devices to be custom controlled, by using ' Minimal' on the Genie and you'll be ok.
Provided you have all your controlled devices set up Default router, you can have up to 10 that have a custom control.
Sucks that Netgear has this limitation, we have a large number of devices in our house. Would be nice to have a bit more flexibility (more than 10) in the devices that don't need to be monitored or controlled.
N6900, bought from Costco if the router I'm using. Should be same as the N900.
Running Android Genie 3.1.28.
The router is at the latest firmware as well.
Cheers.
1. Set all the 'controlled' devices to be the - Default Level on Router.
2. Set all the parent devices to be custom controlled, by using ' Minimal' on the Genie and you'll be ok.
Provided you have all your controlled devices set up Default router, you can have up to 10 that have a custom control.
Sucks that Netgear has this limitation, we have a large number of devices in our house. Would be nice to have a bit more flexibility (more than 10) in the devices that don't need to be monitored or controlled.
N6900, bought from Costco if the router I'm using. Should be same as the N900.
Running Android Genie 3.1.28.
The router is at the latest firmware as well.
Cheers.
The "more than 10" limit is not true. I've changed settings for more tha 10 devices. However, it seems that I cannot change the settings for certain specific devices.
So in order to resolve the filtering of the router and better simplify monitoring and blocking as well as usage, (Albeit I may have complicated things even more, but am looking for a more consolidated solution) here's what I did:
Purchased a second router, set it up as an access point only, and then made that WiFi the kids wifi network. I changed the main wifi password/SSID for the main router so only the parents used that router directly. Although this is a bit more expensive, it made monitoring and managing a little easier since I set a filter for the logs of the IP of the kids' access point. I added all the websites from those logs I didn't like to the access control list in the main router, and set the QoS for the Kid's AP to Medium, and set all the parents devices to High or Highest (that way kids don't hog all the bandwidth). When I go search the logs on the main router for the static IP of the Kids' router I can see all the sites and services they are attempting to use simplified, also in the console of the kids' router the wifi signal on their router is scheduled when to turn off & on. When I have time I'll probably end up buying a small business grade router that has more granularity for controls that can outright block specific URL's since keyword blocking isn't perfect...adding URL's in a console that understands the * command would make it so much easier. e.g. *website.com/* so it blocks everything from that specific site and it's sub sites.