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Roodbaard
Aspirant
Nov 24, 2015

Reach of parental control

Before buying a new router, I was wondering the following:   How detailed is the parental control on the routers? Is it possible to block (temporarily or not) specific sites for specific devices? I...
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PEHowland
Apprentice
Dec 02, 2015

I haven't actually done this, but the router firmware (at least on the R7500) does allow you to block specific services based on protocol (TCP/UDP), port number/range and/or TCP/IP address/range.  This can be permanent, or on a schedule.  Within Skype advanced preferences, the port number for incoming calls is defined.  You could therefore block Skype calls on that basis.