Ask HN: How do you control home WiFi traffic?

Posted by danielovichdk on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:26AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am concerned about my kids' usage patterns around gaming, and wish to tap into the WiFi connection between their computers and the main router.

Then i would like to control which sites and services they use, without having to adminster their computers.

Any tips?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you control home WiFi traffic? by brudgers on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:59AM (#22866034)

I am concerned about my kids...

[random advice from the internet]

Talk to them. It's not a technical problem. Doing something untrustworthy makes the relationship untrustworthy. It's unlikely you will like everything your kids do. Figuring out ways of talking through those things is better in the long run. Good luck.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you control home WiFi traffic? by hattori on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:18AM (#22864657)

You can always deploy/update (remotely via Ansible or something else) custom hosts file on their workstations. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

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