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Parental Controls
Are parental controls coming to the XR500 Gaming Router?
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!I would reiterate the above, the focus is on providing software than can improve gamers connections as much as possible. That being said parental controls has been requested so it's on our feature request lists.
