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Feature Request: Block or allow individual devices based on time schedule
I have an R7500 Nighthawk router that works beautifully. But one feature I miss is the ability to block individual devices based on a time schedule. There is a feature to block ALL devices on a tim...
This major deficiency has existed for well over a year. Let's be honest with ourselves, if Netgear had any intension of fixing this issue they would have adddress it by now. Quite frankly they don't care if we parents have the tools we need to provide adequate parental controls for our kids.
I am a long time Linksys owner, but when our last high powered Linksys router died (overheating problems) I ended up going with a Netgear R7500, mainly because it was recommended for running two separate Xbox consoles on the same network. And I have to admit that it does that function beautiflly, to the point that Netgear has/had the opportunity to convert this long time Linksys owner to Netgear until I ran into their pitiful parental controls. I have a 15 year old, bottom of the line, Linksys router that gives me more Parental Controls than this top of the line, modern Netgear router. That in and of itself it pathetic. Unless something drasticlly changes and Netgear addresses this issue, I will never own another Netgear product.