[petestav]

Yes that’s right. We are a multi device home. My daughter has an iPhone phone and iPad, plus a school Issued laptop and personal laptop. So i am limiting all websites via this router to only a whitelist that I build myself of her educational sites during certain hours for study. The IOS devices are registered to a VPN service issued by the school which also does content filtering and scheduling. I need this as my daughter will simply switch to mobile data during schoolwork time and I use the VPN to schedule study time as well.

The VPN scheduling tool isn’t as powerful as the pcWRT so I can’t get them to work quite perfectly together so ideally, I would like the VPN to always stay connected but still limit the sites accessible from the iOS device to the VPN whilst it’s sitting on wifi on the pcWRT

[petestav]

I understand that, however, if I put the VPN Ip addresses in it’s own schedule, I cannot limit the websites whilst on the VPN. The VPN will do its own limiting to child friendly sites, but I also want to schedule open internet over the protected vpn time vs select sites only and curtain URL’s whilst still going through the VPN and its proxy server.

If I set up a separate calendar and allow the VPN at all times, I will not be able to content filter the websites like I can using a white list.

Apart from adding the VPN IP addresses to my whitelist, what else should I do on the whitelist to ensure the vPN can establish and maintain a connection to the third party proxies? Right now as soon as I use a whitelist, the VPN fails to connect or stay connected.

To simply create a schedule for VPN will not stop that device being used at homework time when we need the Internet for educational websites.

[petestav]

Hi Support. I already have a calendar with empty records and the VPN works fine when in tjisnscheduled time, it does not work when I am running a white list time. I need the whitelist time to shutdown the general internet to do homework, and at homework time to allow all the school websites and the VPN at the same time. I use the VPN at all times but the Family Zone App provides protection but does not shutdown the general internet.

How can I run a scheduled time when I use both a white list to block the general internet and also still allow the VPN through, as your comment thatbthe VPN pushes through is false in this circumstance.

[petestav]

Hi, I have the same issue. Our daughters school is forcing us to use a VPN for all devices. When I schedule open internet time the vpn on her IOS devices works fine, but as soon as I move to a scheduled whitelist to block all sites other than school work, the VPN fails to connect. I have unchecked the block proxy setting, and I have entered the 3 IP addresses for the VPN service. The actual VPN service is from a provider called “Family Zone” with their own IOS app. Family Zone have asked me to enable all ports on these 3x IP addresses but all I have done is add the IP addresses to the permitted sites in both the schedule and also in the central whitelist. What else do I need to do and what can I ask Family Zone to provide to make the VPN get through the routers whitelist and schedule tool please?

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