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I want to add that Skype is also P2P. So are IP phones such as Vonage, Ooma, Obihai etc. If you have any of these devices, you might want to create a dedicated profile for them and turn off parental control for the profile.

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I think OpenDNS only blocks the web sites that distribute P2P software and information (such as torrent seeds). It doesn’t block P2P traffic. Since peers connect to each other by using IP addresses directly, checking the “Block literal IP addresses” box should block such traffic. Some BT clients depend on port forwarding or UPnP, so disabling UPnP should do the trick. For other BT clients, you might want to check the “Block Proxy, VPN, TOR” box.

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@WiseCraig Thank you for bringing up this issue. We are currently working on an auto-update feature that will be finished soon. When it’s available, we’ll manually send out the update and you’ll need to do a manual firmware update one last time. After that, the router will take care of itself!

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Thanks for the update. TOR stands for The Onion Router – one of the tricks to bypass parental control. The “Block proxy, VPN, TOR” box blocks such bypassing techniques. These techniques are usually used from a PC, the possibility of using them on an Xbox is low. Therefore, I would suggest putting XBox in its own profile, uncheck “Block proxy, VPN, TOR” for that profile. Put the PCs in a different profile with “Block proxy, VPN, TOR” checked.

Microsoft recommends turning on UPnP if you have connectivity issues with Xbox. But some people reported that UPnP is not needed for Xbox One. So I gather you have an Xbox One also?

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Can you try enabling UPnP?

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Sorry, guest network is not supported for the current firmware version. But it’ll be added in an update coming soon. We’ll keep you posted.

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Thank you for your enthusiasm about our product! It’s our pleasure to provide a product that users love!

Stock is being replenished. The router will be available again in a couple of days. We are working on the gigabit 11ac router, we are targeting to make it available in Q1 this year.

Currently our firmware only works on the our own hardware. We don’t have the resources to support multiple hardware platforms. However, we won’t rule out the possibility in the future when we gain more customers and have the resources to expand.

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@PeterD Thanks for your interest in our firmware. Currently the pcWRT firmware only works on our own hardware. We don’t have the resources to maintain and support multiple hardware platforms at the moment.

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@docnific Netflix uses IP addresses (instead of domain names) directly to get streaming media. So if you uncheck “Block literal IP addresses” in parental control, it’ll work. This is usually OK, unless you find that kids are trying to circumvent parental control by typing IP addresses directly into the browser. Then you have to “Block literal IP addresses”, but allow Netflix in another way. It’s doable, but will require more effort on your part.

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@yogesh Thanks for contacting us. We can help you resolve all issues you have. Please send email to support: [email protected], with a screenshot of your parental control settings page.

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Yes. When you connect Roku to the router, you’ll see the Roku device in the status page. Save the device with a name so that you can identify it in parental controls. In parental control, create a profile for the Roku device then add a Calendar (with empty domains list) to it. Set allowed time slots in the Calendar.

Since the Roku box has both wired and wireless connections, you’ll need to identify it both ways. So the profile you set up for Roku will list two devices, let’s say roku-wired and roku-wireless.

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You should get a 192.168.10.x address on a wired connection also. Is your wired connection on DHCP, i.e., “Obtain an IP address automatically”? If yes, is this happening for all LAN ports?

If both of the above fails, try assign a static IP address to the wired computer. For example, IP address 192.168.1.99, netmask 255.255.255.0, default gateway 192.168.1.1, DNS 192.168.1.1. Will you be able to connect to the Internet with this setting?

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Let me phrase it in a different way. Suppose you set up several calendars in a profile. When you enter www.google.com, the router will look for a calendar with www.google.com in it.

– If a calendar is found, it is used to decide whether www.google.com is allowed at the current time.
– If a calendar is not found, the router will look for a calendar with google.com in it. If found, that calendar will be checked.
– If a calendar is not found, the router will look for a calendar with com in it…

In there’s no match, the router will look for a calendar with an empty sites list. If such a calendar exists, it will be used to decide whether www.google.com is allowed at the current time. If such a calendar does not exist, then the site is allowed.

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Assume that you want to block youtube.com from 8:00am to 5:00pm, but want to allow it outside that window. And you want to make other sites available all the time. Then you only need to create one calendar: enter youtube.com in the “Sites” box, then enter two time bands: 12:00am-8:00am and 5:00pm-11:59pm. Sites other than youtube.com will be available all the time, because no calendar exists to restrict the time.

Now assume that you want to shutdown the Internet from 11:00pm to 5:00am. You’ll need to create another calendar with an empty “Sites” list, then enter 5:00am-11:00pm as allowed time.

With the above two calendars, no sites will be available from 11:00pm to 5:00am, except youtube.com, which is specifically allowed by the first calendar.

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We’ll try to make the Gigabit version available by the end of the year, give some buffer for the unexpected. We’ll have a better idea of a more realistic date once the testing starts. The price is not finalized, but will be competitive with similar products.

The current product supports one LAN. Multiple LAN config may be added in the future, currently it’s in the ‘nice-to-have’ bucket.

Remote access will be added, via cloud or VPN, or both.

Thanks for the suggestion about the USB port!

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