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Parental Controls
Are parental controls coming to the XR500 Gaming Router?
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.
The folks at Netduma should be politicians. The XR500 is a great router but with no Parental controls. The manual on/off feature is time consuming and for the most part worthless. The NetDuma Team say they are considering a parental control feature, but these are empty statements and promises.
I hate to say it, but without a REAL committment on parental controls the NetDuma OS is a complete waste of money. It's time for a new brand of router or a NetGear one that does NOT use NetDuma as it's OS.
- It is marketed as a gaming router, not necessarily a family router. It has some parental control features in Settings that you're aware of. As it's an operating system we can always expand and bring on more features. It can only get better from here, while it personally may not be for you now it would be in future.