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PCs & Mobiles Forum - Auto Turning off/on Netgear router DG834pn - Page 1
Competent
Hi guys, ok does anybody know if this router can be set to turn the signal off and on at set times? ie, I can go to bed at 10pm i can set it to turn off at say 12am and come back on again at say 7am, just so my son isnt on the internet all night, otherwise I have to stay up to do it manually 
cheers guys
Elite
You may be able to set times on the router when it allows internet access. Or, if he's on Windows7, set it in there when the PC can access the internet.
Don't know about your particular router.
Ste
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Elite Donator
Go to the router set up, into the "Security" menu area, and select "Schedule", set the schedule as you want it.Then go to "Firewall Rules" and press "Add" for a new Outbound rule.
Set the "Service" to be "Any (ALL)" and set the action to be "BLOCK by schedule, otherwise allow". Then press the "Apply" button.
That should give you what you want.
Competent
cheers! seems awefully complicated though
Reviewer
How about plugging the router through one of those timer plugs?
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Elite Donator
"complicated"? I'd have said it seems pretty straightforward.
But if you can't manage it then what Mark said will do the trick. I just don't like 'pulling the plug' on CPU based electrical stuff without shutting it down first.
posted by dave2812 on Wednesday, 11th January 2012, 19:13
Competent
hi again sorry to mither, just a quick question didnt use this set up last year may use it now, when I set the times start and end time, is this the times when I want the wireless to be 'turned off?'
thanks
Elite
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dave2812 says...
when I set the times start and end time, is this the times when I want the wireless to be 'turned off?' Dunno, is it the times when you want the wireless off? Why do you want the wireless off?
Doesn't your router allow you to switch wireless off and then somehow connect to it wirelessly to re-activate it? 
Ste
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posted by ste_p0270 on Wednesday, 11th January 2012, 22:17
Elite Donator
if it's anything like my old netgear 604, you can specify which IP address is
denied internet access at any given time. you have to do this through the "firewall
rules" section as miles rightly mentioned.
used to have to do it to stop my daughter being on messenger until stupid 'o' clock!!
Ste
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posted by dave2812 on Friday, 13th January 2012, 17:16
Competent
cheers ste, think I've sussed it now, I'm going to have a tinker with it to try it out...... wasn't sure if the times you enter are the times you want it to be 'off' but it must be when I think about it 
Dave
