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guyguy
Apprentice
Nov 14, 2016

Time Schedule and Parental Controls

I am trying out the Nighthawk router and I am comparing its features to Linksys and Asus routers. The router has the latest firmware version. I have a few questions about using the Nighthawk router.  I am, more less, confused about some of the features such as time scheduling and blocking sites. Also, I don't understand the purpose of OpenDNS if I can block most sites on the router itself. I am sure that OpenDNS does a better job at blocking sites and categories.

 

1. How do I block a site such as Facebook on individual device? I don't want to block it from other family members. I have tried both OpenDNS and blocking the site on the router itself from preventing both an iPod and Macbook from accessing Facebook.  Both the iPod and laptop let Facebook come up. I have tried to block Youtube on the router and OpenDNS with the same result.  I can, still, access the site on my iPod and laptop.

 

2. How do I set a time schedule on individual devices? I don't want to turn off or disable the wireless to go off at a specific time, I just want to block a device from accessing the internet at specific times like 8pm to 9am. 

 

3. Do I use the Netgear Genie to access the router from outside my home? I like using my work computer to login to my home router to change settings and so on.  

 

I like the Nighthawk router but I need to work through some of these issues such as time scheduling and being able to block sites to individual devices.  Perhaps, someone can offer some suggestion on what I am doing wrong and explain some things. 

 

 

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  • storm1985's avatar
    storm1985
    Prodigy
    Nov 16, 2016

    1. No you cant block apps through LPC. It can only filter HTTP/HTTPs service.

     

    2. To set a time schedule per device;
         a. LAN IP reservation - so the IP wont change and blocking services always works
         b. Block services - where you configure the service and the IP to be filtered (if you want to completely block that device IP set Service to "ANY" or all services)
         c. Schedule - the timeframe you want to set

     

    3. 2 options
           Remote Genie - where you use the NETGEAR Genie -KB guide here
           Remote Management - HTTPs access using WAN IP or dynamic DNS -KB guide here

     

    Hope this helps u :)

    • guyguy's avatar
      guyguy
      Apprentice
      Nov 16, 2016

      Thanks for the response.  I was able to block sites and set a time schedule on the Linksys and Asus router.  Doing this task was very simple and straightforward. To followup with your answers.

       

      1) I am not looking to block apps on the router. That would be a great feature to have but most home routers don't support it. I am looking to block www.facebook.com or www.netflix.com PER device.  I want to block sites without affecting other devices.  For example, I want to block www.facebook.com or www.youtube.com so that an iPod or computer doesn't have access to those sites.  I don't want Mary to have access to those sites on her iPod or laptop. 

       

      2) If Mary's iPod or laptop has an IP of 192.168.0.123, I would static that number on the router and set the time schedule to whatever I want. For example, I want to give Mary from 2pm to 8pm EVERYDAY on her laptop internet access. Next, I want turn OFF the internet access at 8pm to 2pm the following day.

       

      Again, I was able to block sites PER device without affecting any other device in the house. Also, I was able to set a time schedule PER device on both Linksys and Asus routers. It was very easy to do it on those routers and I am looking for the same easy method on the Netgear router. 

  • etorgeson's avatar
    etorgeson
    Aspirant
    Sep 01, 2018

    Hello Dexter.  I know I am late to the party here (and my Nighthawk R7000 router is not even in th dropdown menu so maybe this is an obsoleter thread) but I am writing to check up on whether or not Netgear was ever able to update the parent controls so that after assigning a fixed IP address to a device one could set a schedule for blocking internet use that allowed for multiple time periods of blocking in the same day, and differentiated between days of the week.  The last I read on this forum only a single time frame was allowed, and this applied to a select number of days or to all days.  That is rather prehistoric.

     

    Eli