Airport Express - Block Internet For Certain Hours (Parental Control)

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Airport Express - Block Internet For Certain Hours (Parental Control)

Thanks everyone for visiting!

I am currently on a MAC, we have 4 other computers in the house that are Windows. I initially purchased the Airport Express/Extreme router because it claims that I can block the internet for some computers at certain times of the day.

How do I go about setting that up? I can't seem to find the way to set-up those parental controls on the router.

Can someone please explain to me how to allow only certain computers to log on to the internet at certain hours of the day?

I would really appreciate it!

Thanks again everyone!

Airport Express-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 10, 2012 9:45 PM

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Answer 1

Tesserax

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Jan 11, 2012 9:08 AM in response to grigorexxxcore

The AirPort has a means to control network/Internet access for specific computers by their MAC address for specific times.

You would use the AirPort Utility, in Manual Setup mode, to add each wireless computer you want restricted in the Access Control > Timed Access section.

To add a computer, click on the plus button seen above, and then, enter the computer's wireless MAC address and time restrictions in the boxes as seen below.

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Answer 2

May 29, 2013 9:53 AM in response to Tesserax

What am I missing? My Airport Utility screen doesn't look anything like this - and there is no manual setup option. Can you help? I have version 6.2 of Airport Utility and an Airport Express router.

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Answer 3

markwmsn

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May 30, 2013 6:57 AM in response to rchillyard

Those were for version 5.6 or so. You can do it with 6.2: Click on the device in the map, then the "edit" button, then the "Network" tab, then the check the box next to "Enable Access Control:", which should enable the "Times Access Control..." button.

That should take you to a screen similar to Tesserax's second screen:

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