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8.

Open the genie app and select

Parental Controls

.

Live Parental Controls automatically starts.

9.

Click the

Next

button, read the note, and click the

Next

button again.

Because Live Parental Controls uses free OpenDNS accounts, you are prompted to log

in or create a free account.

10.

Select a radio button as follows:

•

If you already own an OpenDNS account, leave the

Yes

radio button selected.

•

If you did not yet create an OpenDNS account, select the

No

radio button.

If you are creating an account, the following page displays.

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a.

Complete the fields.

b.

Click the

Next

button.

After you log on or create your account, the filtering level page displays.

11.

Select a radio button for a filtering level and click the

Next

button.

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12.

Click the

Take me to the status screen

button.

Parental Controls are now set up for the modem router.

13.

To enable Parental Controls, click the

Enable Live Parental Controls

button.

Allow or Block Access to Your Network

You can use access control to block or allow access of devices to your network. You define

access by selecting or specifying the MAC addresses of the wired and WiFi devices that can

either access your entire network or are blocked from accessing your entire network.

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Enable and Manage Network Access Control

When you enable access control, you must select whether new devices are allowed to

access the network or blocked from accessing the network. By default, currently connected

devices are allowed to access the network, but you can also block these devices from

accessing the network.



To set up network access control:

1.

Launch an Internet browser from a computer or WiFi device that is connected to the

network.

2.

Type

.

A login window opens.

3.

Type

admin

for the user name and type your password.

If you did not yet personalize your password, type

password

for the password.

4.

Click the

OK

button.

The BASIC Home page displays.

5.

Select

ADVANCED > Security > Access Control

.

6.

Select the

Turn on Access Control

check box.

You must select this check box before you can specify an access rule and use the

Allow

and

Block

buttons. When this check box is cleared, all devices are allowed to connect,

even if the device is in the list of blocked devices.

7.

Click the

Apply

button.

Your settings are saved.

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8.

Select an access rule for new devices:

•

Allow all new devices to connect

. With this setting, if you add a new device, it can

access your network. You do not need to enter its MAC address on this page.

NETGEAR recommends that you leave this radio button selected.

•

Block all new devices from connecting

. With this setting, if you add a new device,

before it can access your network, you must enter its MAC address for an Ethernet

connection and its MAC address for a WiFi connection in the allowed list. For more

information, see

Manage Network Access Control Lists

on page

60.

The access rule does not affect previously blocked or allowed devices. It applies only to

devices joining your network in the future after you apply these settings.

9.

To manage access for currently connected computers and devices, do one of the following:

•

If you blocked all new devices from connecting, to allow the computer or device that

you are currently using to continue to access the network, select the check box next

to your computer or device in the table, and click the

Allow

button.

•

To either continue to allow or to block other computers and devices that are currently

connected, select the check box next to the computer or device in the table, and click

either the

Allow

button or the

Block

button.

10.

Click the

Apply

button.

Your settings are saved.

Manage Network Access Control Lists

You can use access control to block or allow access to your network. An access control list

(ACL) functions with the MAC addresses of wired and WiFi devices that can either access

your entire network or are blocked from accessing your entire network.

The modem router can detect the MAC addresses of devices that are connected to the

network and list the MAC addresses of devices that were connected to the network.

Each network device owns a MAC address, which is a unique 12-character physical address,

containing the hexadecimal characters 0–9, a–f, or A–F (uppercase or lowercase) only, and

separated by colons (for example, 00:09:AB:CD:EF:01). Typically, the MAC address is on the

label of the WiFi card or network interface device. If you cannot see the label, you can display

the MAC address using the network configuration utilities of the computer. You might also

find the MAC addresses through the web management interface of the modem router (see

View Devices Currently on the Network

on page

104).