Linksys Wireless Router

[Troll]

Linksys Wireless-N Broadband Router WRT300N

Any good? I'm particularly interested in restricting the hours young Trolls can access (fascist dad) & like the look of the policies that can be configured on this

or is there a better solution?

[Jawz]

Linksys Wireless-N Broadband Router WRT300N

Any good? I'm particularly interested in restricting the hours young Trolls can access (fascist dad) & like the look of the policies that can be configured on this

or is there a better solution?

How about using local policies on the PC to restrict access?

[Back In Business]

Vista has a parental control system that works in the same way as log in restrictions in AD/NT i.e. you can specify hours that an account can use the machine. You can also block certain sites or applications.

HTH

[Troll]

Vista has a parental control system that works in the same way as log in restrictions in AD/NT i.e. you can specify hours that an account can use the machine. You can also block certain sites or applications.

HTH

Means you have to buy the vista upgrade.... only just transitioned 98 >XP

[Troll]

How about using local policies on the PC to restrict access?

I thought about that ... but it would be easier to admin the router from a centralised point

[portseven]

Get an old PC and slap IPCop on it.

[Paddy]

Linksys Wireless-N Broadband Router WRT300N

Any good? I'm particularly interested in restricting the hours young Trolls can access (fascist dad) & like the look of the policies that can be configured on this

or is there a better solution?

Yes go for it. You can also control the times etc remotely from the Internet, eg from work. I also use my PDA to control it using Wifi. So if I want to shut my service down at 22:00 in Jersey while I am in a hotel in Surrey, I just get my PDA out and change the time settings or log people off or block sites etc.

[vetran]

Have you looked at ZyXEL ?

Saw these guys at a show recently, I had a long chat with their technical guy who was extremely knowledgeable. (I was looking for a pre configured routers for home workers and their answer seemed pretty sensible).

http://www.zyxel.co.uk/web/product_f...No=PDCA2006067

I will be taking one of their routers for a trial.

But I also noticed the web filtering :

Basically uses a Trend plug in that does net content management etc and virus blocking.

http://uk.trendmicro-europe.com/cons...&feature_id=60


It also looks like you can limit broadband time so you can allocate them a few hours a day once they have used it then they have to wait till tomorrow.

[dotnetter]

I have a Linksys Wireless G router (can't remember the model number) but I've had it for a while now prob around 2-3 years and it's done me proud, never crashed, failed or gone wrong.

I'd recommend it to anyone.

It's easy to setup and configure wireless security, port forwarding too.

[Troll]

It also looks like you can limit broadband time so you can allocate them a few hours a day once they have used it then they have to wait till tomorrow.

Thanks that's the kind of control I was looking for - a basic allocation per day - if they want more then they can trade their pocket money or chores for extra internet hours