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Parental Control with schedule for separate devices : why is it not possible ?
Hello, I live in France and sorry for my bad english,
Goodbye my old Linksys EA6300 fully bugged (thank you Belkin !!!)...
-> Hello Netgear ;-)
I'll buy Netgear R7000 but I have some questions.
I want to activate "Parental Control" with schedule specifications.
Is that possible :
- Specific schedule access for separate devices (if yes, more than 6 differents devices) ?
- "Enable or Disable or Schedule" in parental control with Genie (with my Android smartphone) ?
I think Guest Network is not exactly same I want (not posible to activate Guest Network with differents schedules for differents devices).
Linksys EAxxx can do that but too many bugs....
Do you think R7000 (or R6400) do all I ask ?
If not possible with R7000, which router can do that ?
Thank you for patience and understanding ;)
Damien
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The best parental control is a complete access blocking by removing the device, no seriously.
You can assign the devices to control on a separate band such as second 5G. And block sites for certain users,
That's why I want a better firewall and some major QoS improvements!
J'espère que ça t'aidera.
Hope it will help you.
Thank you Alexandre ;)
I prefer only use 2.4GHz band and don't use 5GHz.
I hope to assign a schedule to each IP or mac address.
If not possible, OK for one single schedule but is it possible to "Enable or Disable or Schedule" in parental control with Genie for each IP or mac address (with my Android smartphone) ?
Thank you (et merci si tu parles mieux français que moi anglais) :-))
The issue is that as I do not have kids for now, is that I am a dumbass (crétin) in Parental control settings.
or you can go to youtube
more recent version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEdL9EndJgc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVk90AyGCs
old version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP2iee2ZV2k
Faut pas hésiter à raler!
The less you complain the less you have good products that suits the customers needs!
HI,
I have the R7000 and I use the parental controls. As far as I know, it cannot do what you want. You can set different levels of filtering for different devices independent of schedule, but but even that isn't working because there is a bug in the software.
The way it works now is that you can schedule different time periods to have different sets of content filters, or to use the built-in content filters 'high' 'low' etc.
Then you can look at the network map and choose a device and set it to the "default level on router" (which means it is subject to the time periods you set up earlier) or to be 'blocked' (no internet access). Both of these work. You can also set an individual device to one of the preset filter levels, but this feature is broken, and doing this turns off all fitering! Keep in mind that once you set a device to one of the preset content filters, or to 'blocked' it will stay that way until you change it back to the 'default level on router'.
The thing you wanted to do: to have different schedules with different levels of filtering for different devices, isn't available.
You may want to try the technique described here: http://www.pcwrt.com/2015/12/how-to-set-internet-time-limit-on-netgear-router/.