Thread: Block kid's access to the net!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

No, it was my late wife's name and birthday.

John

You may want to read this John:
xkcd: Password Strength

a more cunning way to really annoy teenagers that like to game is to put a bandwidth throughput limit on their connection. Many modern routers allow you to do that and it's simplicity is so good. 64kbps makes gaming really painful and it's too slow for good youtube etc. but the internet still "works"...

Even with all the know-how and bits of equipment I have access to through years of working in IT....

I still find the most effective option now and again is to simply pull the power on the cable modem mid game....

Hey, 30 odd years ago, my old man would pinch my rotor button to stop me doing dumb ****... I guess this is the modern version...

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

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I still find the most effective option now and again is to simply pull the power on the cable modem mid game....

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Yes, I do that from time to time, but it does tend to lead to tantrums!

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

tantrums!

excellent entertainment when you dont have to sort it

router in the your room with a $10 power timer like an arlec pc707

Set the IP addresses to static so each device is fixed by MAC address so they can't alter IP addresses. Then you should be able to block by IP. The only work around is cloning IP addresses and they would need to know which IP's are allowed and their associated MAC.

Unless there is a facility you can install to require to log into the network each use or outside specified hours. You may also be able to block the ports that their games are using.

Originally Posted by incisor

router in the your room with a $10 power timer like an arlec pc707

Amazing the simple solutions to technical problems

I've finally got it all working (Hoo-bloody-ray!), much to the disgust of No2 son.

The problem with the DGN2200 modem is that it doesn't support blocking. Turns out its a version 1 and the manual I had was for a version 4. There's no physical difference between these two versions and GUI is the same also, but the V1 manual doesn't mention blocking while the V4 does. Go figure.

So I thought I'd put the block on the WNDR3700 wifi router down their end of the house and change the wifi password on the DGN2200 so they can't access it.

The WNDR3700v2 let me program and schedule the blocking but it wouldn't work.

Have I mentioned how I hate all things IT!

Turns out it needs the WAN port connected to get the time which then allows the schedule to operate.

This means I now have two networks in the house being 192.168.2.x and 1.x. All works fine except I can't print. The printer is on one network and my desktop is hardwired to the other. The rest of the family use wifi so they can connect to the WNDR3700 when they need to print.

A small price to pay.