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Parental Controls
Are parental controls coming to the XR500 Gaming Router?
NG nor Duma post when new features maybe coming out. They'll appear when the FW is released to there download support site.
This is a gaming router meant for the gaming community and gaming customers. NG and Duma probably didn't want to inlcude any parental controls as this router seems more directed towareds gamers and gaming experinences.
You can direct your concerns to NG about adding features here however:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
If you need a router that does have parental controls, you should probably looking into a non gaming router like NG's R series routers. There good at gaming as well as they do have parental controls.
Good Luck.
This really is one of the better all around routers in it's price range for the functionality it provides - you can either overpay for other gaming-focused routers, or overpay for the Asus RT-AX88U on the family side which has first gen WiFi 6 capabilities (and first gen anything is never worth it). Or you can reach back to the RT-AC88U which Asus may stop updating firmware since it has been out for 4 years now. The others (TP-Link, Synology, etc.) offer clunky OSes that do not compare. My point here is that while you aren't accountable for those other technologies, your product is positioned in a unique price-point for its features EXCEPT for the presence of Parental Controls. That is literally the only thing preventing me from clicking "Buy" on Amazon on this router right now. You really should get a suite of tools (or work with a vendor and buy theirs) to add to your interface. Take the loss now for current models and add $10-15 extra to next generation of routers to recoup costs.
Did some digging and found Firewalla - Netduma-Fraser Netduma_Jack , have either of you guys seen performance data when stacking with something like Firewalla? I know that it requires that you turn off DHCP on the XR500 for it to be compatible (https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009401874), but will that negatively affect any of the automated services (or by a negligible amount)?
- This is the first time I've heard of it, the devices get the IP addresses from the Firewalla box so then I'm unsure if the devices would appear individually or not on the XR500 device manager. It would see it as another router so if you were to use the Geo-Filter for example it would apply to every single device.
