Well that’s one way to kick the little birds out of the nest. No Internets for you! Get a job! Find your own place to live!
Mark > On Jan 28, 2020, at 11:40 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? > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com>
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