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danwellman

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I am a UK Virgin Media fibre-optic customer with a 'Superhub2' cable router.

What I want to do is be able to prevent access to certain websites based on domain name and/or keywords. Basically I want to stop anyone on my network from visiting gambling websites from any device (mixture of ipads, laptops and games consoles)

The 'super'hub doesn't support this (confirmed with Virgin) so I need to get another router to connect the 'hub to, so the internet will come to the superhub, then to another router and all the devices will connect to this other router.

What router can I get that allows websites to be blocked like this? I have been pointed to this device: http://www.asus.com/uk/Networking/RTN66U/

Can someone confirm it will do what I need it to?

Thanks :)
 
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yup asus has quite a bit of abilities to block and it support opendns. If you are going to block stuff block all traffic to port 53 other than opendns sites. This will stop the trivial bypass of changing the DNS settings in the client trick.
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bill001g

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You can block based on domain name but not keys words with many routers. There are very few network based keyword blockers most are client based. If you know all the ip of the sites you can block those on any router that has a basic firewall.

Advanced filters with only a router your only hope is to use something like opendns which has categories of sites it too will not filter key words but it has lots of details in the categories. It of course can be easily bypassed since it is a dns filter mostly.

The only way you are going to get this to work is either with a firewall or a proxy server. To a point you can filter keywords but again it is mostly a site list. You will either have to put the list together yourself or pay for one of the commercial lists.
 
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120 Mbps when it works (virgin have ongoing issues in my area)
 
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The Asus has openDNS I think so I can use that for a rudimentary level of blocking? The other members of my household aren't hugely technical so bypassing it may not be an issue.

So I could block all the sites I know are being used with the firewall, and hope openDNS filters out the rest?

If this is going to be the best I can do, I will do it, just want confirmation for sure that the Asus router can do these things :)
 
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bill001g

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yup asus has quite a bit of abilities to block and it support opendns. If you are going to block stuff block all traffic to port 53 other than opendns sites. This will stop the trivial bypass of changing the DNS settings in the client trick.
 
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