Router Issues - Techys come on in
My Parents don't want me to play maple. Its been like that for quite awhile, but since last week I've decided to quit and focus more on studies. After quitting, i decided to sell my stuff on basil just to find my character's equipment's value, but while trying to do a trade, my parents caught me red-handed playing maple... So yeah. After that, they did some techy stuff and now i only have internet for certain times. I tried explaining that i quit, but you know, Asian parents don't care at all. So i'm wondering to all the techy basilers out there, How to do i fix this? The internet is still there, as i can access it through my iPod. I think it has something to do with the router. Any help would be appreciated.
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[quote=djpinc19]The fact the iPod has unrestricted access indicates that the time-restricted parental control was implemented on the computer, most likely through Window's user account settings (see SoulXIV's above reply.) Resetting the router's settings in this case would achieve nothing.[/quote]
Depends a lot on the router. It could MAC address blocking with a timer option.
My Linksys WRT54G can do it. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26443090/RouterAccessSettings.PNG
That way other devices (such as the iPod) wouldn't be affected and simply attempting to change IP addresses by relogging wouldn't have any effect.
The fact the iPod has unrestricted access indicates that the time-restricted parental control was implemented on the computer, most likely through Window's user account settings (see SoulXIV's above reply.) Resetting the router's settings in this case would achieve nothing.
[quote=RKyais]well, most routers have this little button at the back and if u hold it for 10seconds, everything in the router resets to default factory settigns ;3[/quote]
And you imagine his parents will be just fine with it when he does that..?
I'm not really experienced with this corner of Windows, but I remember seeing a place on the parental settings that can limit Internet usage to certain hours. Of course, you'll need a password to change it, because if your parents are smart enough to restrict your Internet usage that way, they must have used a password so you wouldn't change it.
Your parents are using the security features of the router to block access to the Internet for your computer during certain times of the day.
If they're smart enough to do that, then for sure they put a password on the router so there's nothing you can do about it.
And before everyone jumps in with how to reset the router to give you access to the settings, consider this:
Your parents will KNOW you've done that when they try to access the router again and their password no longer works.
What do you think they'll do then..?