EE broadband

ben12321 · 16 Apr 2017 at 01:03

can anyone help me to restrict my ee broadband hub 2 to stop games being played i have no knowledge on routers i need to know how to stop
my nephew from playing games but still allowing web access to general browsing and youtube. what do i need to do

many thanks for any help

bremen1874 · 16 Apr 2017 at 01:23

This isn't the sort of problem easily fixed with technology, especially with ISP supplied kit.

More context and general information required really.

ben12321 · 16 Apr 2017 at 01:43

my nephew just plays games on his pc i want to block online gaming but allow him to do research for his exams and need to block steam and all online games

BigT · 16 Apr 2017 at 07:48

I've no idea of that router but I doubt it's going to have the features to be able to implement this.

In principle I think that the best you could do is to restrict the MAC address of his computer to be able to use port 80 and 443 only, but you're going to need a router that supports this.

pcfarrar · 16 Apr 2017 at 09:27

ben12321 said:
my nephew just plays games on his pc i want to block online gaming but allow him to do research for his exams and need to block steam and all online games

You can do this with a Draytek 2860 router but it's £300 for the router and web filtering licence. Its also complicated to setup for a novice.

holdin09 · 16 Apr 2017 at 12:39

You don't need to spent £300 on a router for the features, there are routers a lot cheaper that can do this. You could block steam and/or other gaming services on the computer and the router.

ben12321 · 17 Apr 2017 at 02:56

i need to block steam games but do not have a clue

Voicon · 17 Apr 2017 at 05:23

So it looks like you can block ports on the EE router for specific IP address on your network, so you can either just block his laptop or if no one else uses Steam you can block all devices from steam, this would be easier.

Open the Bright Box router's admin pages and navigate to the Firewall menu
Select Access Control
Select Add Device Filtering Rule
Enter a Rule Description - example Block Steam
In the Client Device IP Address field, enter the IP address of the computer or device you wish to block from viewing web pages. If you enter 192.168.1.2 ~ 254 in these boxes it will block all devices.
Under "User Defined Service" no 1 select UDP and enter port numbers 27000 ~ 27037
In the Scheduling Rule menu, select Always Blocking
Click SAVE SETTINGS to apply the rule
Select to Enable the Filtering function and select SAVE SETTINGS
The new access control rule will be saved
You can select to Edit, or Delete your rule at any time, for example if you wish to restore access, or add more users to the list

The above should block all steam on all devices on your network, if you only want to block 1 device you will need to ip address and only block this in step 5.

Ev0 · 17 Apr 2017 at 21:27

Also might want to use static dhcp so that he always has the same ip for you to use in the rule.

pc-guy · 18 Apr 2017 at 17:03

also you want to make sure you give static IP to any devices he has that can connect to the network and block ports on those devices also as you can bridge connections to a PC with the mobile connected to the wifi etc.

Voicon · 20 Apr 2017 at 06:21

@ben12321 did this work?

Liquidfox · 20 Apr 2017 at 13:35

pcfarrar said:
You can do this with a Draytek 2860 router but it's £300 for the router and web filtering licence

You don't need WCF to block ports, you can simply set up firewall rules to do it. Not a job for a novice though. If it's just ADSL a second hand 2820/2830 would do the job too.

pcfarrar · 22 Apr 2017 at 15:13

Liquidfox said:
You don't need WCF to block ports, you can simply set up firewall rules to do it. Not a job for a novice though. If it's just ADSL a second hand 2820/2830 would do the job too.

No but it might be possible to block Steam directly if its on the Draytek APPE list. But yes a cheap 2820 would also do the job nicely for an ADSL connection. Should be able to buy one for peanuts.

ben12321 · 26 May 2017 at 17:50

Voicon said:
@ben12321 did this work?

Just tried it will let u knows

r7slayer · 27 May 2017 at 08:08

ben12321 said:
Just tried it will let u knows

You should also change the password on the router to prevent him accessing it and changing stuff. Then again i guess he could just hit the reset button and hope TR069 takes effect.