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dmohr
Aspirant
Aug 21, 2024

Orbi 970 Site Blocking

Hi,  I have just upgraded from a previous Orbi 960 router to the new Orbi 970 Wifi 7 router.  With my older router, I was able to easily block access to websites by going into the web interface for the router and selecting block sites and adding the sites I wanted to block access to.  Strangely, this feature no longer exists with the newest Orbi router.  Netgear, please add this back into the admin, as it is a very useful feature.  I am concerned that this feature was removed to encourage the purchase of a subscription for parental controls in the Netgear app.  A feature like this should be available in the online router admin when paying this much for a router. 

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  • Also, if you check out Cloudfare, they have both free IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers, with both malware and family-safe options; depending on the sites you want to block. Cloudfare always seems to test out as one the fastest servers with excellent up time.