limiting a child's access time

Luka · EVDO User Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 93

Does anyone know of a product that can be used to limit a child's acces time ?

The situation as I understand it: My friends have children.

They are all on the same router for internet access.

They want to control how much time the kids spend on the internet. But they don't want to have to manually monitor and time the connections.

Is there some gadget that can be placed between the kid's computers and the router, that will keep track of how much time is spent on the net, and will disconnect just that computer after the allotted amount of time ?

Any other suggestions ? (I suggested getting the kids their own router and putting it's power supply on a timer. But that just leads to hassles about the 'schedule'...)

Michael · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject:

I used to use some pretty cool software that was a proxy.

I could, limit the times by day of week

ban specific sites

ban specific sites with specific words in the url or page content

A log was kept on everything (where they have been).

It was a WIndows XP application, and it ran in a the background.

It would help, if you locked down the Windows or Mac computer, so the child couldn't disable the proxy settings Smile

Oh yeah, it was a lot of fun adding all the words to the banned word list Smile

I will try to dig up the name of the software.

It would be pretty cool, if one of the router manufacturers embedded this feature directly into their router.
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Luka · EVDO User Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 93