Netgear routers help you to
provide with the Internet connection to all your devices at every corner of
your house. NETGEAR WiFi range extenders enable you to keep mobile devices,
media players, and PCs connected to WiFi with a secure connection and expanded
coverage in every corner of your home.
Netgear Genie App is easy to set up your router.
It also lets you limit the online content and control them for your small children. You can
also control screen time using Circle Smart Parental Controls.
In
this article, we’ll tell you how
you can set
parental controls through your Netgear Wi-Fi router.
1.
Download the Netgear Genie App on
your device.
2.
Connect your device to your router.
3.
Launch the Netgear Genie App on the
device that is connected to the router.
4.
A lot of cards will be displayed,
click on Parental Control. The Live Parental Controls screen appears. If you
already have an OpenDNS account, select yes. If not, Click Next.
5.
To create your account, fill the
OpenDNS information for your account and click Next.
6.
Set the filtering level and click
Next.
7.
A bypass account will help some
computers/devices to access the internet without any restriction. Go to the
NETGEAR genie Status window, click change custom settings.
8.
Your browser will take you to https netgear.opendns.com. Click on Add a bypass account. Set a
username and password for your bypass account. Click Add account.
9.
Set the filtering level of your
bypass account. Click on Save Filtering Level.
10.
Click on Add a time block. Set the
time and type of filtering level. Then click Add Time Block.
11.
Go back to the NETGEAR genie Status
window and click on the Bypass Login.
Now you can use the internet without any
restriction with the Bypass account. But your device must have the Netgear
Genie App.