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Parental controls on C7000v2
Hello all, The C7000v2 cable modem I bought myself worked fine with the Parent Controls, and my service provider is Comcast. Recently it started to not. So I used the NETGEAR genie application to...
lucliu wrote:
The C7000v2 cable modem I bought myself worked fine with the Parent Controls, and my service provider is Comcast.
Which parental controls?
There are various types of parental controls with their own sections in this community.
Circle Smart Parental Controls - NETGEAR Communities
or
NETGEAR Smart Home Parental Controls - NETGEAR Communities
Which products support NETGEAR Smart Parental Controls? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Other devices support Circle:
Which NETGEAR routers support Circle Smart Parental Controls? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Circle also needs a subscription.
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.
What is Live Parental Controls? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Is there a way to downgrade the firmware ...
No.
I noticed the same thing recently with my Netgear C7000v2 box and was unable to update the firmware to the version listed on the website.
FR7 wrote:
I noticed the same thing recently with my Netgear C7000v2 box and was unable to update the firmware to the version listed on the website.
You will have to talk to your Internet service provider. They don't want people like you, or Netgear, messing around with your modem's firmware.
It is one of the drawbacks of those modem/router combinations.