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Netgear Router WNR2000v5, Parental Controls
parental controls on Netgear router WNR2000v5 defaulting to SMart parental controls instead of OPENDNS. How to fix this issue?
gearnetgenieuse wrote:
parental controls on Netgear router WNR2000v5 defaulting to SMart parental controls instead of OPENDNS. How to fix this issue?
As microchip8 suggests, you are swimming against the tide. The first WNR2000 model came out in 2008!
Open DNS backed out of the Netgear collaboration on free parental controls some time ago.
NOTICE: Live Parental Control Service based on Ope... - NETGEAR Communities
Netgear now offers various subscriptions for parental controls.
Which products support NETGEAR Smart Parental Controls? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Other devices support Circle, another subscription service. But that too seems to be a moveable feast:
Which NETGEAR routers support Circle Smart Parental Controls? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
There may be more recent stuff out there. It is hard to keep up.
Buying a new router is not an issue. This router was working fine until few weeks ago. It just quit working all of a sudden. I tried re-enabling parental controls and that's when found out the parental controls link redirecting to the Netgear Smart Parental controls. When a device is working fine and doing its job, why would you buy a new router and then pay more for other features.
gearnetgenieuse wrote:
This router was working fine until few weeks ago.
And "parental controls" worked back then?
If so, you may be able to get it back, but you can't use the version that Netgear supported when if released the WNR2000v5.
https://netgear.opendns.com/sign_in.php
That stopped working a couple of years ago.
This tells you how to go about it:
NOTICE: Live Parental Control Service based on Ope... - NETGEAR Communities
Read the next message, from schumaku in that conversation.
When a device is working fine and doing its job, why would you buy a new router and then pay more for other features.I think it is called "progress". Netgear decided that it wasn't going to carry on providing a free service on a device that it first sold more than 10 years ago.
If you have updated your Internet service at any time since you installed the WNR2000v5, there is a good chance that your Internet is now faster than your router can handle. The router is limited to 100 Mbps, which is a lot slower than many modern Internet services. The wifi is also four or five generations behind the latest.
These things may not matter to many people, but they do show how things have moved on since that router hit the market.
I think it is called "progress". Netgear decided that it wasn't going to carry on providing a free service on a device that it first sold more than 10 years ago.
The choice of words is excellent. PROGRESS. I don't agree with it. When they made the product, they should have never offered this as a free service, they should have mentioned that there would be a time limit on the offer.