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New Smart Parental Controls (from the V4.6.3.16_2.0.51 firmware on RBR850/RKB853)
Last night, my Orbi AX (RBK853) got updated with the new V4.6.3.16_2.0.51 firmware that has the new Smart Parental Controls. Being a Circle and Circle Plus user for years, I was really curious to se...
We just got a trial of the SPC with our latest upgrade - and it is not working well at all for us. We have been using it for 5 days, and it seems to be tracking internet use according to the history, but the time that is actually shown in the children's usage total is way below how long they are actually spending. For example, today it was saying that my daughter had been online for a total of 30 minutes, when she had been on for close to 2 hours. The history showed sites being visited, but it just want not adding up all her usage time.
The only time so far in this trial where it actually said that my two kids had reached their time limits, it did not actually stop my son's access to the internet on his laptop, despite indicating that his time was used up.
So it is definitely not reliable for us so far!
We will be contacting netgear support and hopefully we will be able to get it functioning as intended. I love the features that it is supposed to have.
I agree. I even did a test on the history and went to some websites which never ever showed up on the SPC history so how is this useful? It is also not reliably pausing devices . I am using RBR750
donewithorbi wrote:I agree. I even did a test on the history and went to some websites which never ever showed up on the SPC history so how is this useful? It is also not reliably pausing devices . I am using RBR750
What's even more annoying is that for something as simple as blocking an app/website like Discord, it takes multiple steps. Unlike Circle, I simply highlight or select Discord from the list and it's done. With SPC, I have to select at least seven different websites that are associated with Discord from the history: discord.gg, us-south9263.discord.media, gateway.discord.gg, media.discordapp.net, discordapp.net, images-ext-2.discordapp.net, and finally discord.com. That doesn't sound very "smart" to me, in my opinion.