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Tiberious_ST
Jun 12, 2019Aspirant
XR500 Disney Circle?
I bought one of these last year to replace my old R7000 that keeps ‘going away’ and needing to be rebooted for no apparent reason. Unfortunately I have a teen with discretion problems so I need my par...
Tiberious_ST
Jun 12, 2019Aspirant
Thanks, for as long as this model’s been out I’m surprised that there isn’t any firm plan yet. The reason I like Circle is that it makes grouping devices by category easy. The GUI makes management of my devices easy and straightforward. New devices are easy to spot and fall into a somewhat restricted group by default. It lacks the granular control that I’d like for rare circumstances, but it’s fast and easy which is pretty important. I don’t want to waste a ton of time managing (let alone setting up) the Parental Controls, I bought the router for gaming after all!
Netduma-Fraser
Jun 12, 2019NetDuma Partner
Great thanks for the feedback, I've passed this on to our team to put in our ideas list!
I realise it isn't exactly what you want but you can block devices access to the internet manually on the Device Manager and also in Settings you can schedule times where the internet turns off. You could use DDNS as well for some further level of parental control.
I realise it isn't exactly what you want but you can block devices access to the internet manually on the Device Manager and also in Settings you can schedule times where the internet turns off. You could use DDNS as well for some further level of parental control.
- Tiberious_STJun 12, 2019AspirantThanks and you are right that isn’t much of a solution :). Also it’s a huge pain in the butt that I don’t want to deal with. Please implement something in a timely manner (too late?) as your customers shouldn’t have to a valued function due to upgrading to a premium router.
Thanks again,
Tib- Netduma-FraserJun 12, 2019NetDuma PartnerAs primarily a gaming router I am sure you can understand that it wasn't our first priority but we do realise that this is something people want.
- Tiberious_STJun 12, 2019AspirantYeah, I suppose most gamers don’t have families....