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Axic10
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Aug 05, 2016
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Trying to set up blocking of steam and other sites without the person knowing Nighthawk R7000 Router

I have a 21 year old step son who has developmental disabilities and freaks out if we flat out block his internet in order to get him out of his room. I've tried to block the ports for Steam, but I don't think that's fully worked. Is there any way to block access to sites/services that don't explicitly say that the sites or services have been blocked by Netgear? Essentially I'm looking to keep his access on, but stop him from playing games online and accessing VPNs to bypass that during certain times of the day. 

 

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  • Retired_Member's avatar
    Retired_Member
    Aug 05, 2016

    resevations is in LAN setup............blocking is done by adding rule from pull down menu.......  both are simple to do ....

     

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  • Retired_Member's avatar
    Retired_Member

    Try blocking HTTPS   use address reservations for his device so it gets same ip

    • Axic10's avatar
      Axic10
      Aspirant

      I tried to so some searching on this, but I'm not sure if I'm following it. Are there any guides on doing this? Thanks for your help!

      • Retired_Member's avatar
        Retired_Member

        resevations is in LAN setup............blocking is done by adding rule from pull down menu.......  both are simple to do ....

         

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