How To Set up Parental controls on a Netgear router Parental controls The Internet has become a vital part of contemporary life, but that does not mean you want your children to be able to connect to each part of it at any time. It is an online world and kids or youngsters have bizarre access to it. For any parent, that can be a spooky thought. How can you limit the time your children spend online for all that You Tubing, gaming, social networking, chatting and shopping? How can you insulate them from probably bad and unseemly material without looking over their shoulder every time? The answer to this is NETGEAR Parental Controls. Parental controls give you a degree of jurisdiction over how and when your children connect to the online network at home. In addition to setting parental controls on particular devices, you should also set parental controls on your home router. Router constraints are freely forgotten but they offer an impressive extra layer of protection. The Router serving as a Block Point Your home router serves as a block point. Each time any device connects to the Internet using your house connection, it has to go through the router. This applies not only to your laptops, computers or mobile devices, but to those of everyone else who visits your home and connects through your internet, such as your kid's friends. This makes the router an all-powerful means of controlling Internet access in your home, and it offers an extra layer of protection from the problems that might befall if your children used your Internet connection to commit illicit activities like plagiarism. If you want to restrict your kid's Internet access, you should absolutely include the router settings as part of your approach.
By using Parental Controls, you can block improper and precarious sites, decrease access by time (for example, no YouTube during homework time) and category (shopping, gaming, adult etc.), and at the same time protect every device on your home network against phishing and malwares through one central control point - your NETGEAR Wi-Fi Router. Accessing Parental controls Netgear Routers allow you to access the controls through any browser (Google chrome, safari, internet explorer etc). You just need to launch your preferred browser and type your home network gateway's IP address. This is generally 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. If these IP addresses do not work, you can look up yours which is even mentioned at the back of the router. Select your Internet connection icon, right-click on your home network, select Status from the menu and then click the Details button on the Status pane. From there you can look for the line that says IPv4 Default Gateway. That's the IP address you want to type into your address bar. Relying on your home setup, you may have to enter credentials to access the router control panel. The default username and password is mentioned on the back/bottom of router itself, or you can look for it in the user manual. To set up Live Parental Controls: Open up any Web Browser from a computer or wireless device that is connected to the internet Type https://routerpage.net/ or http://www.routerlogin.com. A login screen will display and type in the router user name and password. The user name is admin and the default password is password. The user name and password are case-sensitive. The BASIC Home screen will display. Click on Parental Controls. Click either the Windows Users or Mac Users button. You need to follow the onscreen instructions to download and install the NETGEAR Live Parental Controls management utility. After installation, Live Parental Controls automatically starts. Safeguard Your Employees and Customers Too. NETGEAR Parental Controls is not just for home use. For small businesses, schools, and other facilities offering free Wi-Fi, Parental Controls provides smart protection, offering an easy and simple way to monitor and protect your consumers, students or employees from unwanted Internet content and probable hackers. Parental Controls obstructs up to 50 categories of Internet content, and protects from scams and Identity theft.