Calix can do this direct on the router. Users have one login that allows
access to wifi stuff, dhcp, port forwarding, and scheduling access.

Thanks support login which only the ISP has has other settings like WAN
stuff, voip, etc that you don't want the customer to touch. There's also a
mobile app customers can download to achieve the same parental control.
Netvalet is the current app but it will be EOL soon and replaced with
Command IQ

I know you can't say this but the parents should also kick the kids out and
make them work and find their own place to live.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 10:40 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:

> Those of you who supply managed routers (especially if you do this for
> everybody), do you set up parental controls?
>
>
>
> I had a request today from someone who wanted to turn off Internet at
> night to keep his 3 kids from using their devices.  I thought this was kind
> of silly since they are 21, 23 and 24 years old.  (Maybe like senators who
> have to put their devices in a cubby in the cloakroom.  OK, I just thought
> that, didn’t say it out loud.)
>
>
>
> This guy has a leased Mikrotik from us, and Mikrotik does have a Kids
> control feature that could probably do this.  But I don’t want to get into
> this, especially because I fear constant requests to override or tweak the
> settings.  I also don’t want to give customers management control over a
> router that we are supposed to be managing.
>
>
>
> And in this case he wanted to do it across the board, but many people
> might want it set up by MAC address for each person in the family, so maybe
> the older kids would have later bedtimes and the parents wouldn’t have any
> restrictions.  Or they might want the bandwidth restricted so the kids
> could do schoolwork but not stream video.
>
>
>
> What do you guys do?  I’m going to guess Calix maybe has a cloud portal
> where the customer can do things like this on their own, while some
> settings are restricted to the carrier?  What about other cloud managed
> routers like the Cambium stuff?
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