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The Parental Controls feature of the Linksys WRT1900AC router in the current stock firmware (v1.1.8.164461) allows only blacklisting of specific websites on a device-by-device basis.
For the purposes of blocking websites that would be inappropriate for my young children to access across all Internet-connected devices in my household, this doesn't seem very useful to me; I don't have a list of all such websites, and even if I did, it would be infeasible to enter the list (which probably consists of hundreds of thousands of sites?) one at a time, for each individual device.
Is there a way to make the Linksys WRT1900AC actually useful as a parental controls device?
Good suggestion! This isn't foolproof -- for example, OpenDNS can be bypassed by using a DNS lookup website to look up the IP address of a blocked domain, and then entering that IP address into a browser's address bar directly -- but this should be a "good enough" solution for my household, at least for the time being. Thanks! – Jon Schneider – 2015-03-26T15:18:59.787
I'm not entirely sure I understand this solution. The "specialist" sites are still in the OpenDNS records, could you clarify this solution? – Burgi – 2016-10-11T21:30:59.160