I have all of those filtering functions on my current router (dd-wtr mega) but they simply doesnt work. And i'm 100% sure i did everything correctly+1 AsusWRT Merlin is fantastic if you want an easy home-grade UI that has more capabilities...not as much as DD-WRT or Tomato offers...and nothing close to VyOS or PFSense or Untangled. I enjoyed using Merlin's firmware on my Asus AC66R, which I still use as an AP at this point. It'll stick around as a backup gateway should my ERL ever fail or need taken down for service/repair.
Most devices, even with stock firmware have some sort of MAC filtering, that is a fairly standard feature, and many offer "Parental Controls" which usually offers website filtering, though for that, you should really look into OpenDNS Home, you can have your router point to that. Excellent filtering, excellent DNS service, and you can manage your DNS filtering with good control, plus you can just use their DNS servers like Googles and be good to go.
https://www.opendns.com/
https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/
Then if you want a PC to NOT use OpenDNS, set them to use Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). That way anyone that connects is filtered and protected, and if you want to bypass it you're good.
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Then if you want a PC to NOT use OpenDNS, set them to use Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). That way anyone that connects is filtered and protected, and if you want to bypass it you're good.
I have a subscription so I use the VPN service as well, but I use PIA's DNS servers which are 209.222.18.222 and 209.222.18.218. Call me paranoid, but I try and keep as much of my habits away from google as I can (even though it's impossible for the most part) lord knows what a court ordered request for search history would turn up.
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I use PIA as well...excellent and cheap VPN service. What's it like $3/month?
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Most routers filter by registered MAC addresses. You could force static addresses...some routers include a whitelist option as well...letting only authorized MAC addresses connect. Though I tend to default to using blacklisting.
If its setup right and someone is still getting onto your network with their device.. Is there a chance they're smart enough to implement MAC spoofing? They could hide their actual.MAC address in favor of a different one and your router would never know.
So you're already pushing to OpenDNS?
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But at this point you would have a conflict of having two identically defined devices on the network at the same time, so it would become apparent quick something was up.
3.33 I think, but I just pay the $40 for the annual subscription
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To someone knowing what they were looking for and consistently looking for it and understands the concept. Not that it's all that challenging or complicated to manage or perform. Not saying the OP isn't capable of that verifying this.
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Get some ubiquiti Unifi APs and an ERL. Much better spent.
or if you can find it a cisco meraki Z1 at a good price. I got mine for 161 which is half off with 3yrs of the cloud controller.
or if you can find it a cisco meraki Z1 at a good price. I got mine for 161 which is half off with 3yrs of the cloud controller.
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Back in the day, I had an eMachine with a 633MHz Celeron and not much memory at all running Server 2k3 Enterprise (thanks TechNet Student Advantage!) that was handling all routing, DNS, and was even a caching proxy. Handled everything quite well.
Used to do some thing like that back in the UK about 13 year ago as BT would not allow you to connect more than one computer to the line without paying extra for it.