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Parental Controls
Are parental controls coming to the XR500 Gaming Router?
It is something we are thinking about for our roadmap. Meanwhile you can use Block Services/Sites and schedule internet downtime in Settings.
Sounds good.
I have tried that but I need to schedule individual devices. I have children and scheduling on and off times is important.
- Totally understand, it's something we're looking into. Could block individual devices manually on Device Manager.
That's how I've been doing it so far.
Thank you so much for responding. Keeping an eye out for the next update.
what settings, and in the Netgear Genie app or...? I'd like to turn off the internet for my kids every day at 11.
- The settings I mentioned before are in Settings > Monitoring but it will turb off the internet as a whole. For now the best bet would be to block the devices individually on the device manager.
For the most part the XR500 is a great router. THAT BEING SAID, without solid parental control capabilities, the router is just a plain waste of money for any family with kids. Manually turning on an off internet on week nights is tedious and unnecessary. At the least, NetGear sghould post a video on hour to schedule turning off an on specific IP/Mac addresses to help parents that may not be that technical.
Its time for DUMAOS and Netgear to get this feature added to the router. They have been taking about it for quite some time, but for some reason it has not been a priority.
NetGear DUMAOS is this a planned feature? And if so, WHEN????