I'm looking for a decent wireless home router with good website blocking features. My old TP-Link could block tons of sites using target domains and rules, but I just upgraded to a TP-Link AC4000 but it is limited to 32 entries, which isn't enough because you have to enter AAAA.com and www. AAAA. com to effectively block the site, so effectively you can only block 16 websites. The reason I need this is to block ALL adult content and search results. I use CleanBrowsing DNS which handles most of it, but there are 15 or so adult URLs we've found that aren't auto-blocked, and many search engines aren't safesearch enforced by cleanbrowsing and also return adult results to searches (yahoo, etc.) so I want to block those too.
I honestly just want something that is easy to maintain. Pointing to Cleanbrowsing DNS server takes care of 95% of it, then I want to be able to block websites on a per device basis like my old TP-Link lets me. As I test the Cleanbrowsing DNS filtering and come upon new websites that aren't properly blocked, I want to be able to blacklist them so I don't want some low upper limit of sites you can block like 16 or 32 like Linksys and TP-Link do. I want to keep adding more blocked sites over the years ahead. If easiest to just put a firewall appliance inline between the router and cable modem, I can do that too. OpenDNS isn't the right answer as it blocks across the entire network rather than just per device.
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I honestly just want something that is easy to maintain. Pointing to Cleanbrowsing DNS server takes care of 95% of it, then I want to be able to block websites on a per device basis like my old TP-Link lets me. As I test the Cleanbrowsing DNS filtering and come upon new websites that aren't properly blocked, I want to be able to blacklist them so I don't want some low upper limit of sites you can block like 16 or 32 like Linksys and TP-Link do. I want to keep adding more blocked sites over the years ahead. If easiest to just put a firewall appliance inline between the router and cable modem, I can do that too. OpenDNS isn't the right answer as it blocks across the entire network rather than just per device.
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