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Chapter 8: Protecting & Monitoring Your Wireless Network
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Set Up Parental Controls
You can set up the following Parental Controls to manage and limit the usage and activity for
specific users and network devices on your home network:
 Allow or block access to specific Trusted MAC Addresses.
 Allow or block access based on specific keywords.
 Allow or block access to specific websites.
 Set time limitations for computer usage or Internet access.
Note: Any Parental Control filters that do not include assigned ports will apply to all
ports. This also applies to MAC addresses.
You can also link each user on your home network to specific rules for login, time-access, and
content filtering.
To set Parental Controls:
Before setting up any Parental Control filters, you must first set the router time for your
current location on your SBG7580-AC.
1. From any SBG7580-AC Web Manager screen, click the Utilities main menu button on the
SBG7580-AC Web Manager menu bar.
2. Click SYSTEM SETTINGS from the Utilities submenu options list.
Figure 30: Change Router Time Screen
3. Change the router time to your current time zone in the Router Time field.
4. Select Enable Time Server to set the time through the time servers.
5. Click Apply.