Help with childrens internet limit on Sky router.

Revolution

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Hi all.

I have been having difficulty trying to limit my kids wireless usage when they are in their rooms.

My daughter is smashing Facebook too much and my lad is doing Minecraft servers.

I could just disable in the settings manually every night via my rig BUT they need to understand time management.

I have the latest Sky router - SR101

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&r...6D-sl6L3cceL8zru5r3yRPVg&ust=1363905605208466

There do not seem to be any parental controls for `devices attached to this router` (unlike the BT home hub I had before)

Do any of the internet `Guru`s` on here have the information to enlighten me...?

I have tried to limit usage through the firewall rules with the scheduler but failed big time.

I still need to have internet usage myself so I cant just block all.

The other issue is that they have smart phones.

The kids devices run wireless except mine which is `hard wired` but my other half has a wireless laptop.

Please help.

Thanks

Revo
 
If you look under Security and then block sites you can set a schedule (right hand side) to block sites by keyword or by sites containing any mixture you want. you can also set a trusted IP address to allow one PC access without restriction. it will block all PC's other than your trusted IP address so your wife might end up not being able to access FB unless you set a schedule so after 9pm you can access all sites for example.

Sky also offer mcafee family security but only works PC's and needs installed on every device.
 
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I'm not sure of what the goal is, do you want to basically do this:

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Or something more complicated as you mention teaching them "time management", which sort of implies to me like you want to have it somehow allocate several hours of use per day to specific services like minecraft and facebook?
 
KIA said:
This can. http://uk.asus.com/Networks/ADSL_Modem_Routers/DSLN55U_Annex_A/
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Thanks..

How will this compare to the Sky router for streaming and downloading media,

Wanted to download a game off Steam last night and was going to take far too long to sit and wait for it to download, then play it and find out it could be pants.

Bear in mind that I am on Fibre unlimited to the cabinet, which is 200 yards away.

Looks a nice bit of kit, would it be worth going for the next one up or will that be a big enough improvement anyway.

Thanks for the replies and advice too..

Revo
 
Both solid choices, I've got the 56u and its been fine for my fibre connection. The only reason I'd replace it is for a router that supports the .ac wireless standard. But if its a choice between these two you can't really go wrong!

Edit Since you mentioned fibre, the 55u won't work as its for adsl connections. The 56u and 65u are compatible with fibre.
 
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Those two are the recommended ones for price/performance and features. You can get better ones that are compatible with fibre such as:

http://uk.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/RTN66U/

and

http://uk.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/RTAC66U/

They offer slightly more features but at a lot higher cost, the latter only being useful if you have a .ac network. I'd not recommend these though as unless you really need the hardware feature theres no reason paying more.. As i mentioned before, i use the 56U and its is plenty powerful enough for all those tasks you described. Any of the routers discussed will be a upgrade from the stock sky kit.
 
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Out of curiousity since you have FTTC what problems are you getting that's being affected by your children's usage? Just saying, family of six here with FTTC with about 20 devices total and all is fine here.
 
Orcvader said:
Out of curiousity since you have FTTC what problems are you getting that's being affected by your children's usage? Just saying, family of six here with FTTC with about 20 devices total and all is fine here.
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Not an issue with them using it, no bottleneck with every thing streaming or whatever...

The issue is curbing the sneaky little blights evening stints when they are supposed to be in bed..

Daughter under the covers pretending to be asleep...nah...on Facebook on her IPod..

Son setting his phone to wake up at silly hours when the house is asleep to play COD4 ....

Tell you, I thought I was sly at their age.... :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Just want to block all internet on their devices via wifi during the times when they SHOULD be asleep.

I need them to understand that at `X` oclock the internet stops and they should have done everything they need to before that time, then they will learn to get stuff done before that cut off point.

Thanks

Revo.
 
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Fair enough, I know how you feel :p.

Then the 56U is a good shout, it does exactly what you want. I'm using the RT-N53 myself which is a cheaper option and it also has the parental controls you're after, only problem is after a couple of days the 5 GHz band dies, which seems to be a common problem with this model, but if you're not too fussed with 5 Ghz and 1 Gb ports, then this is a good cheaper alternative.
 
What I would do is pick up a bog standard wireless router, set that up with its own SSID and password, give that to the kids, and hook it up to an automatic timer at the socket that just turns it off and on at the relevant times. Then change the WiFi password on the original router so the kids can't connect to that, but your wife can.

Edit - depending on how sneaky your kids are, they could potentially sneak downstairs and remove the timer, then put it back before you get up. I'm sure you can come up with a tamper evident solution though.
 
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