I have an Airport Extreme. Can I restrict my son's wi-fi access to his iPhone during certain times of the day?

Yes, you can using the Timed Access settings in AirPort Utility.

Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility

Click on the AirPort Extreme icon

Click Edit

Click the Network tab

Enter a check mark next to Enable Timed Access

Click the Timed Access button

In general, you will enter the wireless MAC Address of the iPhone, along with daily times that the device will be allowed to connect to the network.

Example.....

Daily.....between......8 AM and 9:30 PM

Or, another example might be......

Weekdays.....between 8 AM and 9:30 PM

Saturdays......between 8 AM and 11 PM

For specific details on how to set up Timed Access......

Click the Help Menu at the top of the screen

Click AirPort Utility Help

Click Setting up a Wi-Fi network on the left

Click Control when a user can access your network

Looks good if the MAC address of the iPhone is correct.

Settings > General > About > Wi-Fi Address

Works fine for me running several tests using with Wi-Fi address (same as MAC Address) on my iPhone.

Also tested using my Mac as well.

If you need more flexibility as far as allowed times, you can have mutliple rules for the same device.

In other words, you could have a rule for Fridays and Saturdays with different allowed times than the rules for Sunday through Thursday, etc.

Hi Bob,
This looks so simple, except when I get to the end the "save" button is grayed out. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks

Carolynn

Please take us through each step that you are performing. What happens after each step?

I have a question.... what if, for example, you have an iphone not able to access internet say from 2-8pm... but you want to lift that restriction for today.... any way to override it manually on the fly for one time? Thanks.

Nope