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LeDam
Jun 03, 2016Aspirant
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...
JessEvans
Jul 01, 2016Tutor
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.