Recent content by McMike7

Friend, you are an angry internet troll pushing unwanted "advice" and lecturing and insulting strangers about parenting on a technology board. No mystery why you have a jaded view about relationships with kids or issues with how to be an effective adult.

i feel sorry for you

Thanks for the link. It highlights the concern that brought me to this page initially: that the user-friendly options I have come across are in fact possibly accompanied by performance issues, up-selling fees, and not as effective as advertised. As for your question, I have no plan to page...

Well this has turned into a debate about parenting. Which is of course the third third rail of conversations, after politics and religion. Suffice to say we will have to agree to disagree. Some parents choose to throw unsupervised keg parties for kids in their basement under the theory that...

Thanks. 'zactly where I do not want to be. That's where the Gryphon seems attractive, at least at initial glance. User-friendly interface, access from anywhere on your phone app, etc. But probably overkill.

Well, until the kids defeat me at Yorktown, it's not a democracy. ;-) To me, the internet is like that kid in High School who's parents seemed to always be traveling out of town somewhere. That's were you went to get into trouble. And everybody who went there pushed a little more boundaries...

Being able to review browsing history if we choose to, and to turn off the internet when we chose, particularly in the context of conversations and trust building, is far from being an "overlord". Thanks for the reply.

Thanks for the reply By the gateway comment, does that mean that basically any wireless router can be attached to my existing modem's ethernet port? Thanks for the resources on parenting, it's probably outside the scope of a reply I can type here. Suffice to say, I think parents should be...

Howdy, Amidst the sea of routers and parent control devices, I am having a hard time actually narrowing down and evaluating what might work for me. So, I wrote a fairly specific set of criteria of what I do and do not want. What I want: Wifi router that has user-friendly parental controls for...