Originally Posted by Dude
Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
For netnanny stuff--

you can lock down your wireless router by passwording it. I never give DD the passwords-- I unlock the device, and you can set it up with a timer, too, so that it only stays unlocked for a period of time.

When you unlock the router for your DD, you're also unlocking it for the rest of the neighborhood. To get around this problem, you'd have to also configure the device to only accept connections from a select list of MAC addresses, which corresponds to every device in your home.
I was using this just the other day for my son when he needed to use the internet but I wanted him off the sites that he waists time on. My router allows me to lock net access per device, and by time, and to set up specific web sites to allow or disallow. It is not as slick as some programs. But it's on the router where he doesn't have the administrator password.

Last edited by bluemagic; 06/02/14 11:04 AM.