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RBK752 Trying to create time limits for specific devices connected to the wifi
Hello,
Like a lot of people now-a-days my children are doing online classes here at home. I have a willful teenager who is using this oppertunity to access the internet after bedtime using his Chromebook. He has a phone as well but I have that locked at a specific time. The Chromebook is issued from the school and as such I have no direct control over it. I can take his away from him and have been doing that in the evenings after he is done with school and homework which solves that problem, but I have three other children in the house also using chromebooks (and one iPad) and as their passwords follow a specific formula, he knows all of their passwords.
Is there a way I can limit the connection for just a handful of network devices between a certian time frame? My other electronic solution is to put them on the guest network and just toggle it off when I go to bed (no option to automatically turn it on and off at certian times) or just lock up all devices which I would rather not do.
Thank you.
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Maybe I am just dense, but I can't seem to figure out how to make that happen. I have access control enabled, I check the devices I want to control (just my phone for now since I don't want to block them from school) but no option for schedule shows up. If I select the phone and just go to the schedule menu, then pick all day every day blocking, it doesn't affect the phone, nor does it seem to affect any other device on the network.
After applying the change, try a reboot of the phone and RBR to see if this changes the effect.
Possible you may need to set up a IP address reservation for the device as well. Under Advanced Tab/Settings/LAN Setup.
I believe I have it figured out. The Schedule isn't for total device access, since it's for sites and services, I'll just create a block on service ALL on all ports, then assign the correct devices (by IP which I'm not thrilled with, would prefer MAC) and use that to limit the extra devices. Thank you for your help!