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Nate-X

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Have schedules set for specific devices? My router now can disable wifi broadcasting during certain times but it's all of nothing. Looking for a possible option that can disable certain devices from connecting during certain periods. Thank you. :)
 

Nate-X

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Yeah. Trying to find something to get the teens off late night but still keep it available for my baby's nanit and owlet. Bleargh.
 

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In before one of your teens somehow manages to attach a pocket wifi router and connect it directly via LAN without you knowing to bypass your parental lock.

One thing i tell all my friends...

You are not smarter then your kids, don't even try and set yourself up for a disappoint to be out foiled by them.
And you should be proud about that and at the same time worried.
 

Nate-X

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Lol I know my teens and they are too lazy and non driven to do something like that. They'd just sooner go to sleep. Before the baby was born I used schedules just fine. I just don't want to screw with the baby camera and monitor. Doh.
 

iamgenius

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In before one of your teens somehow manages to attach a pocket wifi router and connect it directly via LAN without you knowing to bypass your parental lock.

One thing i tell all my friends...

You are not smarter then your kids, don't even try and set yourself up for a disappoint to be out foiled by them.
And you should be proud about that and at the same time worried.

Very true. Happened with me:D
 

Nate-X

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You underestimate their motivation when their gaming and/or chatting with their friends is on the line....
Unfortunately I don't. If things are taken, they mope like I just kicked a dog. Teens are definitely not like when I was younger. Not driven, hell when they have to reboot a phone to try and reconnect to the wireless rather than reboot the router, it's like I asked them to write a 10 page essay. I have mac address filtering for both wired and wireless so they can't hang any device on it. They can't even remember the wireless key most of the time. Maybe I got on the shit end of the stick when it comes to them, but I'm definitely not underestimating them lol. I seriously wish I were. They are 16 and 17 and tech eludes them. I'd love for them to prove me wrong. My wife and I have a 1 year old so maybe she will break the mold

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fkoehler

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LOL, then I sad.

Be happy they're not 29-30, living at home, working remote, gaming at night yelling into chat... and not interested in moving out...
 
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Teens are definitely not like when I was younger. Not driven, hell when they have to reboot a phone to try and reconnect to the wireless rather than reboot the router, it's like I asked them to write a 10 page essay. I have mac address filtering for both wired and wireless so they can't hang any device on it. They can't even remember the wireless key most of the time.
I would be testing for lead paint ASAP. Those are all signs (reduced intellect, reduced drive, poor memory) of environmental lead poisoning at an early age.
 
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I run LateralAccessDevice on my former windows desktop that is eight years old with 4 NICs, currently connected to a cheap switch to add an additional four ports (I will probably add another 4-port NIC some time for more manageability). It picks out devices by MAC address and I have the kids’ school computer set on a schedule so they can’t use the Internet after 8PM at all. DNS is set up to block adware domain names and have a schedule where the kids can’t access Youtube domain and similar stuff outside school hours. There are some other settings, too.

That software was just released 2 days ago and you're already running it?