Hi guys, 

I am having problems with setting up parental controls on my new router/modem (VR2100) 

I have followed the guides and tried contacting Tp-Link support with no success. 

So, I am adding my children's devices to the list of parental controls and choose the effective time followed by whitelisted restrictions without keywords in order to limit the time they can spend online. The problem is that when parental controls are switched on, outside of effective time internet is limited to such extent that they cannot even open youtube kids or Google Classroom (only some random browsing but it is hit and miss), and during an effective time, there is no internet at all (which was my intention). Additionally, my understanding is that parental controls when ON, are limiting access to all adult websites and not block nearly everything. So I have to manually turn parental control on or off to gain/restrict access, which is a pain and also absolutely ridiculous considering the price I have paid for the router.

I can use open DNS for parental controls from the device level but is there any option for blocking access only during certain times of the day? Our eldest son is 13 so I don't need to block his access to Wikipedia or sports news! But I do need to block his access after a certain time of the night so he doesn't spend all night watching youtube on his phone.

On my old router from (PlusNet ISP) I had the option of "access control" where I could choose a time where the internet is completely cut off for chosen devices only. The only similar option I can see on Tp-Link settings page is a WIFI schedule but that also cuts off my own phone and Amazon sticks etc (every wireless device).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks!