I have a new FIOS Internet installation. I have successfully added a parental control rule to block email and facebook website access on my children's computers from 10pm to 6am in the morning. Great feature. I now want to add a second rule that always blocks the youtube and fml websites. However, when I go to create the second rule my childrens computers are no longer available from networked computer picklist. If I take the device out of the first rule then they are available for inclusion in the second rule. What am I missing ? How do I add multiple rules for a single computer. Hope this makes sense.....
Just gave it a try...
It looks like you have 1 ruler per device, so you edit the existing rule to add additional restrictions for the web sites.
Thanks. That was what I was afraid of. So maybe it's ony kind of a nice feature and not a great one 😉 I am trying to find a way around it with the fios router but have not had any luck. For example, I was hoping I could use a Network Object as a surrogate but I haven't even been abe to create one of those yet. The only thing I can think of is to put another physical device in front of it.
If you go to the IP address distribution section of the advanced controls and bring up the device list, you can select the mac address of the PC in question, and asisgn it as static. This will always give the PC the same IP address. Or go to the PC and assign a static IP address. Set the restrictions based on IP address and not name. I have done this when port forwarding had issues seeing the computer name. I don't know if this will work, but you can give it a try. I have had issues in the past where the features do not always see the computer name when they should. IP address work better at times.
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