We currently control our kids' access to wifi using our cable company's ZyXEL router. The router allows you to schedule blocks of time in 30-minute increments during which your kids can use the house wifi. It's an annoyingly slow, unwieldy, and primitive interface. You have to click through multiple screens and dropdown windows to make any changes, and sometimes they don't take on the first attempt.
I'm wondering if any of you has used a better system. The features we'd love to have are:
1) the ability to control wifi access via our iPhones;
2) the ability to schedule access in increments smaller than 30 minutes;
3) the ability to give our kids a specified amount of wifi per day, not as a mass of unscheduled time, but as an allotment to be used as they need it. In other words, they start with, say, three hours, and they consume it gradually over the course of the day. This way they have to be structured about the way they use their time;
4) the ability to block certain websites;
5) the ability to see what the f*ck our kids are doing online
I should mention that we have both Apple and Android machines in the house; I don't know if that makes a difference.
Thanks. I'm curious to know if people have found good strategies for dealing with this problem. My wife and I feel that it's spiraling quickly out of our control during this pandemic period.
I'm wondering if any of you has used a better system. The features we'd love to have are:
1) the ability to control wifi access via our iPhones;
2) the ability to schedule access in increments smaller than 30 minutes;
3) the ability to give our kids a specified amount of wifi per day, not as a mass of unscheduled time, but as an allotment to be used as they need it. In other words, they start with, say, three hours, and they consume it gradually over the course of the day. This way they have to be structured about the way they use their time;
4) the ability to block certain websites;
5) the ability to see what the f*ck our kids are doing online
I should mention that we have both Apple and Android machines in the house; I don't know if that makes a difference.
Thanks. I'm curious to know if people have found good strategies for dealing with this problem. My wife and I feel that it's spiraling quickly out of our control during this pandemic period.