# too much internet in the office

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-internet-in-the-office/214074>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 19, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-internet-in-the-office/214074 "2003-11-19T12:20:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![RobertP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@RobertP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobertP)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-internet-in-the-office/214074/1 "2003-11-19T12:20:49Z")

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I saw a recent thread from someone who wanted a way to time their internet use to control their excess. I want to take it a step further: I _know_ how much time I am on the net in the office, and it is too much. For me it’s not a problem of exceeding a total time at one stretch, but going back and forth all day long. Whenever I lose momentum on what I am doing at work, I find myself surfing. It never uses more than 15 minutes at a go, but there are lots of _gos_. I don’t even dare think of how much it adds up to.

So for me the solution is simple. I want to be able to control it so that I can only access the internet before or after regular work hours, and during my lunch hour. Can anyone suggest a software (freeware or regular commercial product) that can do this - give me small, timebound windows for internet access? What about programes like NetNanny, CyberSitter, etc? Can those do it?

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**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-internet-in-the-office/214074/2 "2003-11-19T12:29:05Z")

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you might be better off asking a mod to shift this to General Questions.

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**Author:** ![RobertP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@RobertP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobertP)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-internet-in-the-office/214074/3 "2003-11-20T09:04:40Z")

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> \*Originally posted by paulberserker \*  
> \*\*you might be better off asking a mod to shift this to General Questions. \*\*

Good advice. Dear Moderator, could I ask you to shift this to GQ? thanks

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**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-internet-in-the-office/214074/4 "2003-11-20T15:52:22Z")

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I know it can be done with Cyberpatrol Lan because it was being used by one of our d\*\*kwad admins to keep me (and only me)from accessing Hotmail during the day when others could access it just fine. Talk about your powermongers!

Ok… I seem to have strayed from the OP for just a little bit.

Seriously though… I know CyberPatrol Lan will do what you want, but I’m not sure if that feature is available in the local version of Cyberpatrol.