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Circle with Disney Parental Controls On Orbi WiFi Systems Now Available
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NETGEAR is bringing peace of mind to parents by managing not only access to appropriate online content but also...
The most useful review on this thread by Frank. He gets it.
I just dumped my traditional router for Orbi. 100% of the reason for choosing Orbi is the performance of the system. Every review clearly states it is #1 as a MESH solution, and they are correct. There isn't anything else close for a larger home. Trust me, I have tried many router, extender, dual router and MESH options.
That being said, the parental controls are actually a nice bonus. I had looked at Circle for a year, but just couldn't bring myself to set up a new account and buy a piece of hardware. The fact that it was integrated into Orbi is great. All you do is sign up.
Frank gave an excellent account of the free Circle features. That is good enough for 99% of parents, and better than any other router parental controls I have used. It's also better than a couple subscription services I have tried due to ease of use.
My one complaint was touched on above. The basic features (pause internet, filter content and services by age, monitor usage) are great. I wish Netgear/Disney would offer an option to install the basic features on 4G/LTE using the MDM/VPN solution. I just want to extend the basic features to my kids' phones when not on WiFi. Call it Circle Go Light! I would happily pay $4.99/mo for that, but it is a bit of price gouging to require $4.99/mo to ENABLE THE ABILITY to pay extra for Circle Go!
I respectfully request that you offer this in a future update. Just do it an squash the competition!
We have an Orbi Wifi Router with Cricle and Circle Go enabled. My teenager has Circle Go on her IOS iPhone.
I had "not allowed" facebook but allowed instagram for my teenager. When she tried to use instagram, she could see some things but not load pictures or videos from her contacts. I tried "unmanaged" but no improvement. It then occurred to me that instagram is owned by facebook, so I "allowed" facebook, and then her instagram worked properly.
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We have an Orbi Wifi Router with Cricle and Circle Go enabled. My teenager has Circle Go on her IOS iPhone.
I had "not allowed" facebook but allowed instagram for my teenager. When she tried to use instagram, she could see some things but not load pictures or videos from her contacts. I tried "unmanaged" but no improvement. It then occurred to me that instagram is owned by facebook, so I "allowed" facebook, and then her instagram worked properly.
For detailed support for the Circle integration, you should check the help topics on the Circle website.
I found a Circle article that might help regarding Instagram.
Is a family member's Instagram account not loading correctly?
If so, you might have set Instagram to "Allowed", but Facebook to "Not Allowed". Instagram is a service that is now owned by Facebook, and both services are heavily reliant on common server addresses (for example, Instagram now uses Facebook's content/media servers). If you set Facebook to "Not Allowed", it's likely something might break in Instagram as well.
You can change the Facebook platform in Circle Home to "Allowed" if you want this content to load properly. Unfortunately, at this time we are unable to differentiate appropriately between the two services for the reason listed above.
