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Parental Controls
Are parental controls coming to the XR500 Gaming Router?
Needless to say this is a significant disapointment to me.... I have seen your company advertise the parental control features of the "Nighthawk App".. this was the reason I selected your brand. But to then sell a "nighthawk" router (all be it, a gaming router) that doesn't offer the enhanced features that you using to market the nighthawk brand is just down right rediculous and manipulative in my opinion. I don't see how this can not be priority number 1 for your company, seeing the number of parents with kids that "Game".
Netgear promote their router and handle hardware, we just handle the DumaOS part of the router. So I would suggest contacting Netgear directly if you have concerns over that. Our focus initially was to bring out a true OS for routers that allows us flexibility on the features we can add. We needed to first include the features our previous software did (pre Netgear) and get that all working, so now we can/are looking at the bigger picture and are understanding what people want and how we might achieve that.
- If who ever answers the forums on here would please let the higher ups know we are asking for this instead of giving the generic answer “it’s on the road map” yes. I’m sure it is on the road map and I’m sure it’s not a priority. But I think if someone higher up maybe a supervisor or a dev knew this was in high demand they could copy some quick code over even if sloppy. It would suffice and be quick and later down the road map they could fix it up.
Just please let someone up there know.. thank you.Well when I say "on the roadmap" I literally mean we're working on it. We're aware it's a much requested feature.
When we do release it, we're going to do it right. We're not really interested in releasing some half baked parental control feature that barely works.
