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Forum Discussion
Parental Controls
Are parental controls coming to the XR500 Gaming Router?
The settings I mentioned before are in Settings > Monitoring but it will turb off the internet as a whole. For now the best bet would be to block the devices individually on the device manager.
For the most part the XR500 is a great router. THAT BEING SAID, without solid parental control capabilities, the router is just a plain waste of money for any family with kids. Manually turning on an off internet on week nights is tedious and unnecessary. At the least, NetGear sghould post a video on hour to schedule turning off an on specific IP/Mac addresses to help parents that may not be that technical.
Its time for DUMAOS and Netgear to get this feature added to the router. They have been taking about it for quite some time, but for some reason it has not been a priority.
NetGear DUMAOS is this a planned feature? And if so, WHEN????
- I believe there is a plan to implement a more comprehensive Parental Control solution but it is Netgear taking care of that as far as I am aware so I do not have an ETA on that but will try to find out.
Any update on parental controls?
Hi - none in the short term but definitely something we are looking into.
- 2 years later and still nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s getting old! Add parental controls and device manager with time limits like every other brand out there. We spent a lot of money on this router and modem as the site toted parental controls, yet none exist. I have an appointment in 20 min to switch back to xfinity router, which would make this just a expensive paperweight.
- Disappointing to say the least. My nighthawk is being used as a paperweight, I've switched to a completely different brand. Maybe next time they listen to the forum and brighten up. They are clearly not listening to their customer needs.