Broadband App

[SimonWilding]

Can someone give me some advice on a very annoying issue with the app.

Using the app I turned off the wifi using the on off toggle switch, however it turns out that this turns the router off so devices cannot connect to it. Which is fair enough. However when the kids had done the chores they were set and I said I'd turn the wifi back on, my phone could not connect to the router to turn it back on!

The only way I could turn the internet back on was to re-set the router which took off al the personal setting I put on and I had to reconnect 14 devices in the house back to it.

Surely there be a better/easier way to do it but if the device with the app can't connect to the router to turn it back on what can it be?

Cheers 

[machare]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I ommitted to mention the reason that WiFi schedulings are not available on a per device schema comes from device providers fearing being sued by angry parents.  If you had per device schedules in place, and combined that with content filtering, kids being kids, will try to find ways around these things - yes even the partial solution I offered is flawed in regards to this.  The solution the manufacturers came to is TO DO NOTHING AT ALL, and leave the responsibility to the parents to ACTIVELY monitor their kids use of the internet.

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DD-WRT does not support per device schedules but you can turn the 2.4 and 5 GHz physical interfaces off and on according to a schedule - one hour blocks, and you can exclude or inlude devices depending on their MAC addresses.   I have DD-WRT running on a TP-Link Archer C7 downstream of my main router and connected using DHCP.  (Because the OpenVPN client connects quite nicely to OpenVPN servers I have at another location.)

[TonahN]

I had EXACTLY the same issue. It is SO frustrating. What is worse, the app thinks that wi-fi is off - i.e. the toggle bar for activate wi-fi is off - and whn I try to toggle it back on it won't let me, which means it won't let me change netwrok name or wi-fi password name. I can connect devices to the wifi but I have to reset them all to the origianl network name and super-long password. Really poor. 

[Anonymous]

You'll see conversations along these lines for almost every router out there.  Now I could be big-headed and say that some of the ASUS routers do this - JUST SO LONG AS i DON'T DARE TO CLAIM THEY DO IT RELIABLY, coz it'll turn off every time, it's just that about once per week it won't turn back on!