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I want to block both my kids cell phones and laptops from certain sites, but do not want to block anything on my computer or cell phone. How can I do this?
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Well you simply enter different DNS resolver addresses on your computer, different from OpenDNS, e.g. your ISP's or from other publicly usable recursive DNS providers.
http://f.00f.net/PubDNS/
https://www.grc.com/dns/alternatives.htm -
Ah, you asked "how", not "what": http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+to+change+DNS+servers
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@renegaderob18... Here's one way...Assuming your kids access the 'net through your router, use the OpenDNS server settings on your router setup. The first 3 servers you should use are:
- 208.67.222.222
- 208.67.220.220
- 208.67.220.223
Disregard the third one if your router has only two DNS entry fields.
For your own laptop, go into your Network Settings, and find you wireless adaptor. Under "Properties", you will see references to TCP/IPv4. Under its properties you will see a place to manually enter DNS server settings. Unless you have an alternate preference, use Google's public DNS settings:
- 8.8.8.8
- 8.8.4.4
After you "OK" everything, flush your bowser and DNS cache (a reboot should clear the latter).
This way your kid's wireless devices will all pass through OpenDNS, and yours will fully bypass.
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Yes, we all use the same router. Tomorrow evening when I have time I will try to set it up. Thank you all for the help. Off this subject, but I use bitdefender, but not sure if I am gonna renew it. What is the best antivirus to pay for and what is the best free one just in case. I was using advanced system care free version to clean the computer. Is that the best free one or is there a good antivirus that will have something like that as well. Sorry for all the questions, but I have kids and they get a lot of junk on their omputers and sometimes viruses. Thanks.
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You can download Microsoft Security Essentials for free: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download
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I made very good experiences with Avira Free AV.
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus -
When I went in to the open dns dashboard settings to add 208.67.220.223 as the first ip it showed this when I hit enter " Network is a subnet of another member's CLOSED network." Maybe I am doing it wrong, but like I said I am new at all of this, so If I messed up something can someone walk me through it please.
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I'm sure my NetGear router differs from yours, but under "Basic Settings" I see "Use these DNS Servers"... Here's a screenshot..
http://cloud.screenpresso.com/s49ze/2013-07-31_22h33_05.png
If you don't have this feature, please tell us your router model ID.
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Can you find your router/setup here...
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If you're using "Live Parenteral Controls" you can start here:
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Forget my last 2 messages. Ok I finally got into those basic settings. Since my netgear is pretty new I went to the netgear site u gave me and clicked on a link on there site to open the basic settings since I guess not all have the tab on the netgear. I have now added those 3 dns's. and the 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.3.3. What do I do from here to set everything up for the kids parental controls to bock things and so I don't have anything blocked on my computer.
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"I have now added those 3 dns's. and the 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.3.3."
First thing is you remove 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.3.3 again. Nobody said you should be using those together with OpenDNS resolvers. The first is not an OpenDNS resolver address, and the second is not a resolver address at all.
Further, if you router really came with OpenDNS LPC, I doubt you would have to enter OpenDNS resolver addresses at all at the router. I believe there is simply an option to enable LPC (Live Parental Control). If you want, you can upload a screenshot of this router settings, so we can have a look..
Also, if you have this Netgear with LPC, you'll have no way to exempt a computer from using OpenDNS. This is not foreseen with Netgear and LPC.
To configure the router and your OpenDNS settings, go to the netgear site again (http://netgear.com/lpc) and download and install the Management Utility program if you didn't already do so. Then click the tab "Installation Tutorial" at the netgear site to go through the instructions. Then tell us how far you got.
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"I am confused from the different responses."
Sure, your fault, because first you didn't even mention LPC for a long time, so we provided advises for the "normal" OpenDNS Home Basic. When you came up with LPC, this changed the world, because there is not much in common. Simply forget the first instructions about OpenDNS Home Basic.
The main differences are:
- No OpenDNS resolver addresses to be configured on the router with LPC
- A totally different dashboard with LPC
- Additional programs to be installed and run on the computer for LPC
- Additional profiles based on Windows and Mac OSX users and time scheduling available with LPC
- No stats available in LPC
- No Updater program to run with LPC
"What I am hearing now is that no matter what I want to block for my kids computers it will be blocked on mine as well?"
No, far not, it's just totally different with LPC. You'll have to install the other tool, the User Utility, on your computer. Then you create two profiles, the default profile which is in effect for everybody not having an own profile, and a special profile for you. You must then authenticate through the User Utility to use your individual profile which can have different content filtering or none at all, different from the default profile.
Also, your LPC dashboard is at http://netgear.opendns.com/, don't use the other dashboard any longer, and delete the network from there if there's any.
As you can see, totally different instructions for LPC.
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