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Genie and major shortcomings
Dear Netgear, Your parental controls/Genie have some MAJOR shortfalls. Here is what EVERY parent wants: 1. Able to disable any additional MAC addresses from connecting to the router via Wired or Wireless. Kids are smart these days and can just change their MAC address. If they do this then it should disable them from all internet access. 2. Ability to control parental controls by MAC address (not ip unless you statically assign IP via MAC) 3. In parental controls we should be able to use OpenDNS levels or custom. 4. In parental controls we should NOT have to install software on the child's PC to login or manage the bypass login. This should be controlled via Genie/Router. 5. We need a way to turn off the internet on a timed basis. For instance my daughters need to be off by 8pm, and my son by 10pm. This should be handled again via MAC address not IP, and through Genie/Router. 6. Some parents want time limits. So if there has been activity (major activity) it should count that time against some type of timer... for instance my daughters get 2hrs each on their PC's but my son gets 3hrs. 7. I would love to have the option of a Two-Factor Authentication, especially for remote management. 8. I want to see logs of every denied request each MAC address is doing. If my kid tries to access something like "penthouse" it should log it. Furthermore an option to email or SMS us would be great in this case. If anybody wants to add anything to this discussion please do. Right now I think some of this can happen through Genie/Router but not all. The fact that I have to login to their PC using Genie as admin to enable Bypass user is totally ridiculous. I am pretty sure some teenage programmer thought that was a great idea... certainly nobody with children would ever have built Genie this way. Sincerely, CoreyUnable sign in to openDNS account to set-up parental controls using NETGEAR Genie
Nighthawk RS6400 V1.0.1.22_1.0.17 NETGEAR Genie Version 2.4.36 - Desktop & iPhone app Steps to reproduce the error: Start NETGEAR Genie app, either desktop or mobile app Click on Parental Controls tab Click on Yes, use my existing OpenDNS account radio button then click [Next] button Enter Username and Password, then click [Next] button App displays Signing into OpenDNS... dialog for a few seconds Dialog closes and an error message is displayed above the login name: "There was an error signing in, please make sure you're connected to the Internet and try again." Using the same OpenDNS user name and password is successful at https://login.opendns.com This is a serious issue because the primary reason I bought the router was to make Internet access safe for the family. What is the problem and how do I resolve it?
Netgear Genie for Windows and iOS create different entries for OpenDNS Parental access for C6300
Genie for windows creates and manages a different entry in OpenDNS from Genie for iOS. This prevents me from using Parental Controls Router Model - MAC Address - Sign Up Date C6300BD - XX:xx:yy:a3:bb:51 - Mar. 01 2017 C6300BD - XXxxyya3bb54 - Feb. 05 2017 Data edited (for security) but format is exactly as appears on OpenDNS.Mobile Broadband Netgear Aircard AC785 dongle failover with Netgear Orbi, OpenDNS, DNSOMATIC,
Hi I am considering buying the Orbi as a possible solution to my house. (3 story victorian house c. 3,500 sqft with various dead spots, annoyingly in the kitchen, and nothing in the garden). I have some concerns currently which stop my purchasing it. I have no doubt of the performance, but for my setup to work I need the following. 1) USB Mobile Broadband My Netgear Aircard AC785 mobile broadband to be able to plug in via the USB socket to act as failover broadband (or infact if I decide in the future to do away with my fibre broadband provider) 2) DDNS - DNSOMATIC.COM It looks like currently there is only dyndns.org and noip.com ddns as an option. I need to use dnsomatic.com as this can update my dyndns account and my opendns account at the same time. Those are the two critical things for me that would prevent me buying it. I would in addition like to see usb 3 for printing and fileshare. I am also not sure what happens if you then need a 3rd Orbi, its not clear ( to me at least) how this communicates to base and/or the satellite, maybe someone in the know could clear that up for me that would be great. I currently have a ReadyNAS for critical files, but I also use a usb drive for kids things like films. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Ben