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Parental Controls
Are parental controls coming to the XR500 Gaming Router?
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.
- All, I gave up on Netgear's a ability to provide full feature sets on this router. I purchased FingBox and added it to the network. It is available on Amazon and has a fantastic app to set schedules, turn in and off the internet for specidix devices and tighle internet for a group of devices based on the associated user.
Netgear has been around for a very long time. Unfortunately they have not kept up with consumer trends. I will not be purcahsing a Netgear router moving forward!Most gaming routers or at least XR routers are designed and tuned more with the gamer in mind. Having parental contolls may not be a consideration or priority for gamers thus would be no need. Also having additional features like this can impack gaming performance. Again if your looking for full features routers, then NGs R series or Orbi routers are more full features, however not tuned for gamers. The XR series is a gaming router with gamers in mine, sans parental controls. Good Luck.
randiniz wrote:
All, I gave up on Netgear's a ability to provide full feature sets on this router. I purchased FingBox and added it to the network. It is available on Amazon and has a fantastic app to set schedules, turn in and off the internet for specidix devices and tighle internet for a group of devices based on the associated user.
Netgear has been around for a very long time. Unfortunately they have not kept up with consumer trends. I will not be purcahsing a Netgear router moving forward!
