100% Defeated Parental Controls
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I just discovered that my kids have completely defeated the Parent Controls on this router -- daily time limits, bedtimes, even pausing! -- by using a VPN app. This is absolutely ridiculous! While their devices are paused, I can watch the data up/down flowing freely for their devices on the Clients view. TPLink might not be able to control what their devices do via VPN from the router out to the Internet, but they should certainly be able to control the internal network side -- especially on pause or when the time controls are exceeded.
Is there a setting I could update in the router to resolve this? Or does TPLink need to go back to the drawing board on how their routers manage network traffic in terms of Parental Controls?
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@Seganku Definitely not ideal, but effective and I figured that would be the best available solution.
Rebooting the router doesn't help because they can still initiate a VPN session after Bed Time and after Time Limits and when Paused (and any combination of the 3). That's the whole problem, really. The best solution would be for TP-Link to release an updated firmware that would fix this issue.
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@ArcherC8 They get the TP-Link Parental Controls captive page (connected to WiFi, no internet access), but when they fire up the VPN, it works anyway.
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@ArcherC8 When the WiFi is scheduled off, the guest networks are disabled, too.
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@ArcherC8 Along those lines, my son quickly figured out how to enable the hotspot on his mobile. I already had a Raspberry Pi set up to do some other things, so I set up a cronjob to log the output from 'iwlist wlan0 scan' once a minute. It can be useful to see when (and where-ish) any new wifi hotspots are popping up within range.
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I have been looking for how to block VPN connections. But there is no category in Tether App. TP link should add a cateory that blocks VPN apps/web sites.
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