Asus RT-N66U set up

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vimes42

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I just recently purchased this router because I wanted the ability to grossly limit my kids access time.
Issue 1:
I saw that the guest account features allow you to set a time limit. My understanding was that this would allow my kids to access the internet until they used, say 2 hours, during the course of the day, then it would lock them out.
This doesn't seem like its the case. When I enabled the account, it immediately started counting down. How can I set it up to drop her after "X" amount of time of actual USE?

Issue 2: The router is dual band. In order to see the 5Ghz side, do my devices need to be dual band also?

Thanks for any help.
 
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bill001g

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The simple one first yes you must have dual band devices to see the 5g band.

The Asus firmware...especially the latest patch levels are some of the most advance options you are going to find in consumer routers. What you are asking for is more a access control system that is based on a userid. This router of course can limit users..ie ip addresses...by time of day but not for example how much bandwidth or time they consume. Even if you were to use say a commercial hotspot system like a hotel uses they do not limit you for x number of hours per day they would limit you for x number of house from the first time you activated it. Still these are using external servers not the router/AP to do the user admin.

You best bet is going to be to load dd-wrt and dig though all the options on the site and see if someone has implemented this already directly on the router. The good news is it likely can be done the bad news is if someone else has not already written this you are going to have to script it yourself. It would likely have to be done with dynamic IPTABLES entries and cron jobs...hard to say it is not something a router does normally.

The more common user restriction like yours is one that says I want to limit a user to say 100mbyte per day is not even possible on most firmware images. The only one I know that can do that is gargoyle. It does that function but is missing many other features and has much smaller list of supported routers.

I suspect unless you are very ambitious you are going to have to live with the parental controls where you can limit stuff to a fixed time of day.
 
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