shawdreamer Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 seen as my 8 year old son's a type 1 diabetic (thats insulin dependant for those that dont know) I allways buy him toys instead of choc for easter, this time round I bought him a pc which he can have in his room with wireless connection to my modem/router down here in my office. I was just wondering if anyone knew of someway/program that would limit his internet usage so I wasnt forced to constantly trudge up the stairs every five minutes to make sure his eyes havnt started to glaze over infront of his monitor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie74 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 i think if you have your pc set as the master one you can cut his conection,, not that sure though,, but will be watching the thread as my sons getting his own soon too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Your router itself might have some kind of scheduling feature in it that'd limit usage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchkev Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 i mate i know had a lynxsis wireless router and he could set a time for his computer to connect and disconnect. if memory serves me correct, he assignes an I.P address to the wireless device, then when it connected to the router, he found the I.P and could limit what time and for how long it connected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawdreamer Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 Your router itself might have some kind of scheduling feature in it that'd limit usage? its a netgear jobbie reboxed for Sky so I havnt the foggiest what its capable of, tho Id have to say Ive not came acroos anything. just installed it with the sky broadband disk and away it went, didnt have anything else to do with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I've got a legit copy of netnanny (http://www.netnanny.com/) you can have it for a fraction of the retail price. Send me a message if interested. I've got the MSN/AIM IM monitor cd too I beleive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawdreamer Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 was kinda hoping there'd be something I could just install on his pc that'd simply cut off internet explorer but would be password protected.... I just assumed there'd be something like that due to the popularity of IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchkev Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 ask the tech guys at pc world / currys. as i said before it can be done as he allowed the wireless to be used at ours but cut it off at a certain time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithyandco Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 The Netgear jobbies are easy to setup to limit users on certain IPs or IP ranges... chuck us a PM with the model number and I'll tell you exactly how Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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