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Nighthawk R6220 not blocking sites
I've been having some preteen digital sneakiness going on in the house, mainly getting on youtube and watching stuff the child shouldn't. I went into my router setting according to the instructs (advanced, security, block sites) and added both youtube and youtube.com to the list. I clicked apply, logged out, and the site is still reachable. What am I doing wrong?
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Netgear has set up a community forum specifically for General Router products. Most of the people who watch that forum are more likely to have experience with older routers and know how to work it better than those of us who follow this router forum. Might be more likely to find someone who has a solution if the question is posted there:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/General-WiFi-Routers-Non/bd-p/home-wifi-routers-general
Please use this link to the main forum product list to review and choose where to make your posts.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/NETGEAR-Forum/ct-p/en-netgear
Thank you
meknollac wrote:
I've been having some preteen digital sneakiness going on in the house, mainly getting on youtube and watching stuff the child shouldn't. I went into my router setting according to the instructs (advanced, security, block sites) and added both youtube and youtube.com to the list. I clicked apply, logged out, and the site is still reachable. What am I doing wrong?
You probably need a more sophisticated approach to this problem. Blocking sites really isn't that sophisticated. That's why Netgear has a raft of different ways of dealing with the issue. They go under the general banner of "parental controls".
The original version of your R6220, now six years old, came with free parental controls. That gave some control. But Netgear has abandoned that approach in favour of paid for services, like Circle.
The other boilerplate reply has nothing to do with your question. The answer is the same for "general" or Nighthawk routers. They all work in the same way. It doesn't help that not all Nighthawk routers have the same features.
Start with the problem. Then track down something that meets your needs.
Sadly, this may mean a new router, Nighthawk or otherwise. Indeed, you may get better guidance here because someone may be able to tell you which device they use to keep the kids under control. In my case, I know that the R7000P has Circle. (The R7800 doesn't.)
