The Parental Controls feature allows you to restrict a user’s Internet access within your network. With this, you can pause Internet access, schedule a pause, block specific websites.
Overview
Step 1: Connect your laptop or computer to Speedefy router’s WiFi network.
Step 2: Enter http://www.speedefywifi.com or 192.168.3.1 into the address bar.
Step 3: Enter the router login password. The login passwords are case-sensitive.
Step 4: Select Parental Control.
Parameter description
Parameter
Description
Device Name
It specifies the name of the online device.
MAC Address
It specifies the MAC address of the online device.
Uptime
It specifies the online duration of the device.
Operation
Click to configure the parental control rule for the device.
After you have configured the parental control rule for the device, there should be a or button, which is used to enable or disable the configured rule.
+New
Click to add parental control rules for devices that are not connected to the router at the time.
Click or +New to edit or add a parental control rule +New is used for illustration here.
Parameter
Description
Device Name
It specifies the name of the device that the parental control rule applies to.
MAC Address
It specifies the MAC address of the device that the parental control rule applies to.
Internet Accessible At
It specifies the period during which the device can access the Internet.
In
It specifies the days when the rule takes effect.
Website Access Limit
It is used to enable or disable the website access limit function.
Access Control Mode
When the website access limit function is enabled, there are two access control modes available.
l Blacklist: The device is blocked from accessing the websites specified in the rule during the specified period, but can access other websites. The device cannot access the Internet out of the specified period.
l Whitelist: The device is allowed to access the websites specified in the rule during the specified period, but cannot access other websites. The device cannot access any website out of the specified period.
Blocked Websites
It specifies the websites that the device is blocked from accessing or allowed to access during the specified period.
Unblocked Websites
Scenario: The final exam for your daughter is approaching and you want to configure her Internet access through the router.
Goal: Websites, such as facebook, twitter, youtube and Instagram, are inaccessible during 8:00 to 22:00 on weekends using the computer in her room, and no Internet access is available from 22:00 to 8:00.
Solution: You can configure the parental control function to reach the goal.
Configuring procedure:
Step 1: Find the device to which the rule applies, and click .
Tips: If the device to which the rule applies is not online at the time, you can click +New to add a parental control rule for the device.
Step 2: Specify the period when the target websites cannot be accessed, which is
8:00 ~ 22:00 in this example.
Step 3: Choose Specified Day, and tick the days when the rule is applied, which are Sun. and Sat. in this example.
Step 4: Enable Website Access Limit.
Step 5: Choose Blacklist.
Step 6: Set Blocked Websites, which is facebook, twitter, youtube, instagram.
Step 7: Click Save.
After the configuration is completed, your daughter can access any websites except for facebook, twitter, youtube and instagram from 8:00 to 22:00 on weekends, and she can not access the Internet from 22:00 to 8:00.