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Device pools and restrictions by time
hi, I am thinking of buying a Netgear wifi router to sit behind my DSL router and have all connected devices work through it and then through the DSL router to the Internet. I guess this is my first q...
Totallydave I totally understand your concern and questions.You need not to worry, we're here to help.
If you're leaning towards ranges of IP then that's the best way to go.
Regarding IP Pool, you may reserve IP addresses on the computers that will be allowed either manually or through the use of Address Reservation (as shown below) and then set a different DHCP pool range on computers that will have limited access.
For the bypass account, I don't have an actual count and still verifying this with engineering. So far, it allowed me to create 20 users.
Feel free to let us know if you have more questions.
Thanks Elaine,
So it looks like the most appropriate control is the 'Block Services' - which allows me to switch off specific services for specific devices at specific times.
As for managing which devices are in that 'IP Pool' - I think my approach would be to statically assign addresses to the devices that I didn't want blocked and remove these from the DHCP pool served the the rest. That way, any new device would have the service block applied - Is this correct?
Whilst I don't think the Parental Controls is really what I'm after (no time schedule), I would ask one further question... How many Bypass accounts can be added in this mode?
Sorry for the many questions - just want to be sure before I spend my hard earned cash on a new Router.
Totallydave I totally understand your concern and questions.You need not to worry, we're here to help.
If you're leaning towards ranges of IP then that's the best way to go.
Regarding IP Pool, you may reserve IP addresses on the computers that will be allowed either manually or through the use of Address Reservation (as shown below) and then set a different DHCP pool range on computers that will have limited access.
For the bypass account, I don't have an actual count and still verifying this with engineering. So far, it allowed me to create 20 users.
Feel free to let us know if you have more questions.
Thanks Elaine, that's great.
I have all my answers and know how I can make it work. Don't worry about the number of bypass accounts, I can't imagine I would need more than 20.
Regards, Dave
You're welcome Totallydave
By the way, bypass account creation is unlimited.