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Wi-Fi scheduling on the THG3000

Wellington
4: Newbie

I was using this facility last year and then turned it off. I recently turned it back on again, and it doesn't appear to work anymore – Wi-Fi continues to work through my specified 'off' period.

Has this facility been disabled? I tried a firmware update, but there didn't seem to be anything new (Firmware version is 19.4.0551-3261143). I also did a factory reset only last week to correct another issue, and the scheduling issue was there before and after the reset.
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Jayach
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

@Wellington wrote:.

@Jayach – I was trying this schedule as a test, but my goal was to switch wi-fi off at night to prevent me falling down YouTube rabbit holes…

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In this setting, you are telling the Wi-Fi to be on from 21:00 to 22:00. For it to have any effect the Wi-Fi would have to be off normally,

I suspect you meant to set it to disabled as a test.

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I assume you definately remembered to press apply.

 

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"As you were using the schedule previously, it presumably made sense to you at that time."

Yeah, that's kind of puzzling/worrying, because I don't remember having problems setting it up at all 🤔.

Wellington
4: Newbie

The 'old' Linksys turned out to be older than I thought (a model WAG200G from 2008 - how time flies 🙁), but I also discovered the router supplied by my previous broadband supplier (Post Office 👎), a Zyxel VMG3925-B10B.

I had used this router to initially connect to Vodafone when I first signed up (and the THG3000 had yet to arrive 🙄), so it still had all the correct settings 😁. Also, like the THG3000, it's got 5GHz wireless. I hooked it up and it worked, and it appears to have a functioning scheduler for wireless (though the interface isn't very intuitive). The only downside is that it seems to run quite hot, so I don't know how long it will last (edit: seems to be a known issue with these).

@Cynric – regarding option 4, were you referring to a device like a Wireless Access Point? This would allow me to turn off the wireless on the THG3000 and deal with the wireless through the WAP, right? Do WAPs allow one to schedule/control access? 

Cynric
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

@Wellington I was thinking of a PiHole with a shell script to be run by cron, the script could add the MAC and/or hostname to a blacklist to block the device and at another time to remove it from the blacklist. It rather depends how familiar you are with Unix scripts, but I think there's a blog somewhere describing how to do it.

Cynric
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

@Wellington  I have the "-B10C" variant of the same Zyxel router. I have the "V5.13(AAVF18)C0" firmware downloaded, but not yet installed from caution of not wishing to muck-up the router I am currently using. The installed firmware is "V5.13(AAVF.13)J1".

Wellington
4: Newbie

@Summer808 – thought I'd tag you into this thread in case it helps with your goal of restricting internet access (though you'd have to turn off all your Wi-Fi, I think).