Fedi, my internet router sucks, drops wifi every few minutes, recommend me a different one?
Barest requirements:
I need to be able to hit a button and cut off the littleun's MAC address.
I'm buying it once and then I'm done, I'm not signing up for anything. If that means buying an old pre-capitalism-collapse one off eBay then fine.
If I need to screw with it then I'm going to 192.168.1.1, I'm not installing any damn apps. On my current Netgear one I have to tell my phone to pretend to be a desktop before it lets me in and it sucks.
I don't wanna screw around with OpenWRT or custom firmware or whatevs, I do enough of that on every other bloody thing I own and I don't have time for another hobby.
Nice to have:
Have the "Turn off the kid's internet" button press itself at a certain time. My current router has a really crappy thing where you can choose times and days for the littleun to have internet or not, I don't want that - I only want the kid to have internet when I say she can have internet, not when the router says it's time for internet. So right now inside the parental controls menu the internet is blocked on all time slots, and when she says dad can I have Scratch time I go to 192.168.1.1 on my phone and flip the "Parental controls are ON" toggle, but my problem is I forget to turn the block back on so she's sneaking Scratch time early in the morning, so I want that button to press itself at night. I want "Internet off until ask Dad" functionality.
@ifixcoinops i'm running a synology router and it works. Each kids' devices have separate off times or I can hit a button. It also blocks a lot of ads for me.
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