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Parental Controls
Are parental controls coming to the XR500 Gaming Router?
Hi - none in the short term but definitely something we are looking into.
The folks at Netduma should be politicians. The XR500 is a great router but with no Parental controls. The manual on/off feature is time consuming and for the most part worthless. The NetDuma Team say they are considering a parental control feature, but these are empty statements and promises.
I hate to say it, but without a REAL committment on parental controls the NetDuma OS is a complete waste of money. It's time for a new brand of router or a NetGear one that does NOT use NetDuma as it's OS.
- It is marketed as a gaming router, not necessarily a family router. It has some parental control features in Settings that you're aware of. As it's an operating system we can always expand and bring on more features. It can only get better from here, while it personally may not be for you now it would be in future.
Why bother even suggesting that this will be enhanced? For the money spent and regardless of whether it is a gaming router or not, there is no reason why you cannot add parental controls. Stop suggesting that parental controls will be a feature in the future or that it is even a consideration on your team's part. All you have been providing the community is false hopes.
- In it on our roadmap but it is not one of priorities which is why it has not been added so far. I am certain it will be expanded upon in the future but do not have a timeline for it.
