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Overnight device activity consuming allowed time
The devices attached to my son's profile are using the network during overnight (when he's not actually using the devices) and consuming time allocated to him. Both of these devices are kept on stan...
The most normal thing in in operating computers and similar devices. Even if nobody is actively using (e.g. open the screen, unlock, ...) or logged in on a Windows or MacOS many things can go on. Operating system updates securoty updates, App/program updates, game updates, ... Welcome to the year 2022.
- Right, I know all that. Generally a laptop that’s in Sleep mode should have none to minimal activity but it appears a number of services/daemons on macOS run regardless. Same with XBox.
So that’s why I thought Bedtime settings would prevent these systems from chewing up my son’s quota but apparently it doesn’t.
Any useful suggestions would be welcome.I paused my son's internet access at around 9:40pm ET yesterday, and this morning, 2:35hours of time was used. Hisotry doesn't log any visits since 9:40pm yesterday, yet time is being consumed. How is this possible?
Looking at the Uncategorized log, there's a list of IPs that seemed to have consumed all the time. These IPs belong to Apple, so calls to these IPs must originate from my son's iPhone or MacBook. My question is (and it's related to my Bedtime question above), if my son's internet access is paused, how are these calls allowed to be made by Orbi?
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