# Anyone know of any wifi routers with REAL parental controls
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-of-any-wifi-routers-with-real-parental-controls/696113
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 21, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-of-any-wifi-routers-with-real-parental-controls/696113 "2014-08-21T18:09:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Shadowfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfyre)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-of-any-wifi-routers-with-real-parental-controls/696113/1 "2014-08-21T18:09:26Z")
My son is now 14 and just started school for the year. Now that he’s old enough, we don’t have grandparents or neighbors waiting for him when he gets off the bus, so he is alone until either my wife or I get home.
The deal is that he is supposed to do his homework before he uses any electronics. So I was looking for something to lock down the internet access while he was home alone. However, his school issued Chromebooks to all students to do homework on Google Docs.
My wife and I usually get home around 6:00. And we use our phones, tablets, computers, and streaming TV all evening long.
So the idea is to find a router that will allow us to lock the internet down all day, except for Google Docs, until 6:00 then open everything up. (If my son needs wider access for an assignment, he can wait until 6:00 and do chores and other assignments in the meantime.) Then I’d want to to cut access to his phone and Nintendo DS after 9:30 so he doesn’t spend all night surfing youtube.
But only on the weekdays. I’d want everything opened for the weekend.
Skydog seemed to have done all of this quite well. Apparently, I am a month too late. They just got [bought by Comcast](http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/14/comcast-skydog/) in July and it looks like Comcast has no plans to release the functionality to anyone (including their own customers).
I found [OpenDNS](http://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/parental-controls/), but that just seems to be a smut filter. I have that already on my current router.
So I turn to the SDMB. I know many of you are into networks and I hope maybe someone has seen something similar to Skydog that isn’t turning up in my Google searches.
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### Author:  [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-of-any-wifi-routers-with-real-parental-controls/696113/2 "2014-08-21T18:15:35Z")
A lot of home routers have time based controls:
> **[Smart Parental Control | Internet Filter | Internet Safety | NETGEAR](https://www.netgear.com/home/services/smart-parental-controls/)**
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> Managing family internet time has never been easier. Track activity, block inappropriate sites and build healthy internet habits with Smart Parental Control.
First hit off of googling home router time controls.
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> With Parental Controls, you can block inappropriate and dangerous sites, restrict access by time (for example, no Facebook during homework time) and category (adult, gaming, social media, etc.), and at the same time protect every device on your home network against malware and phishing through one central control point - your NETGEAR WiFi Router.
Slee
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### Author:  [@Shadowfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfyre)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-of-any-wifi-routers-with-real-parental-controls/696113/3 "2014-08-21T22:11:18Z")
I did see that, but I missed that particular sentence. Otherwise it just looks like a run of the mill smut blocker. I’ll have to see if that will work for me.
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### Author:  [@Kiwi\_Fruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiwi_Fruit)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-of-any-wifi-routers-with-real-parental-controls/696113/4 "2014-08-21T23:00:48Z")
Similar thing in Linksys routers, too.