User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Product Overview
- Setting Up: Basics
- How to create a home network
- Where to find more help
- How to install your router
- How to configure your router
- How to test your Internet connection speed
- How to connect devices to your network
- How to set up parental controls
- How to configure your guest network
- How to back up your router configuration
- How to customize Linksys Smart Wi-Fi
- Using an External Drive
- Setting Up: Advanced
- How to manually set up your router
- How to associate a router with your Linksys Smart Wi-Fi account
- How to get the most out of your dual-band router
- How to control access to your network
- How to set up the DHCP server on your router
- How to access your network on the Internet
- How to clone a MAC address
- How to connect to your corporate office using a VPN
- How to optimize your router for gaming and voice
- How to enable Voice over IP on your network
- How to configure UPnP
- How to use a router as an access point
- How to put your new router behind an existing router
- How to expose a device to the Internet
- Port Forwarding and Port Triggering
- Maintaining and Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Specifications
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Setting Up: Basics
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Information about the device appears on the screen.
4.
Click OK.
How to set up parental controls
With your router, you can use parental controls to:
• Set the times that Internet access is allowed.
• Block websites that you specify or based on their content.
• Set the above restrictions for specific computers.
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When someone tries to open a blocked website, a Linksys Smart
Wi-Fi login page appears. To view the blocked content, you must
log into your Linksys Smart Wi-Fi account and change the parental
control restrictions.
How to set parental controls
To set parental controls:
1.
Log into Linksys Smart Wi-Fi. (See “How to connect to Linksys Smart Wi-
Fi” on page 7.
2.
Under Apps, click Parental Controls. The Parental Controls screen opens.
3.
To turn on parental controls, click the Enable parental controls button
so that ON is displayed.
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It’s not necessary to set parental controls over each computer
on your home network. You can set the controls on only those
computers that children can access.
4.
To select a computer to apply parental controls to, click the name of the
computer in the Restrict Internet access on list.
5.
To block Internet access on the selected computer(s), under Block
Internet access:
• Click Never to allow Internet access.
• Click Always to always block Internet access.
• Click Specific Times to set the times when Internet access is allowed.