Home Networking

189 readers

1 users here now

A community to help people learn, install, set up or troubleshoot their home network equipment and solutions.

Rules

Please stay on topic.
Please use the search function to look for keywords related to what you want to ask before posting since most common issues have been answered.
No Ads. This community is for support and discussion. Ads and self promotion are not welcome here.
No product reviews or announcements. If you have a question about a product, be specific about what you want to know.
Be civil. Don't be a jerk. Not being a jerk is surprisingly easy.
No URL shorteners. URL shorteners tend to hide the real use of a link. For this reason, please use normal links, even if they're long.
No affiliate links.
No gatekeeping. With profession shall come professionalism. Extend help without judging others for their ignorance. The same goes for downvoting of comments or posts for "stupid questions" or not being as knowledgeable as others.

founded 10 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Mesh Networks with free timer (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My son moved into his new room last week and I'd like to be able to turn the network off to his devices in the evening. However I went into my orbi dashboard and found it requires me to use a paid 3rd party app called circle to manage parental controls. I do not want to pay a monthly fee for something that should be included so I'd rather just replace the routers.

What mesh routers allow me to have two Networks and set on and off times on the guest network?

top 4 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Does the son have a mobile phone? Turning off wifi access to the router won't stop them from using mobile data

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Get voxel for orbi router

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This looks useful, I have the old RBS10 which isn't compatible. Would you upgrade to RBR50 Orbi's or get a different system?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I would look into routers that are compatible with tomato tomato. Asus comes to mind. If you stick with Orbis, RB50s are inexpensive to start with. I use Rbr50 with 3 satellites and they are great although I don’t use voxel. Tonato firmware is much simpler imo. How big is your house? You may not need a mesh