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I've seriously considered setting up an old-fashioned automatic timer to control the power going to our DSL modem so that our Internet service is only available

I've seriously considered setting up an old-fashioned automatic timer to control the power going to our DSL modem so that our Internet service is only available for an hour or so out of every day. My worry, though, is that I'd be unplugging the modem from the timer and hooking it directly into the wall whenever I work from home, and that'd be a slippery slope to just having it hooked up all the time again.

indiv0 12y ago
If your router supports Tomato[1], dd-wrt[2], open-wrt[3], or similarly featured firmware, you might have a feature to restrict access at certain times of the day based on MAC address. This would allow you to work from home, while restricting access for your children. The only issue I might see with this setup is if your work-from-home PC is the same as the one the rest of your family uses to access the internet. [1]: http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato [2]: https://secure.dd-wrt.com/site/ https://secure.dd-wrt.com/site/ [3]: https://openwrt.org/ https://openwrt.org/
Someone 12y ago
Apple's Airport Express has that built-in. http://9to5mac.com/2013/10/06/how-to-set-time-limits-on-your-wi-fi-network-using-airport-utility/ http://9to5mac.com/2013/10/06/how-to-set-time-limits-on-your... states you even can set it up per device, so you can give your kids 7x24 access while making yourself more productive by limiting Internet your own access. Let someone else set the device password, glue the network cable into your DSL modem and the Airport Express and you are all set.