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4 Conﬁgure any or all of the following parental controls:

Trusted MAC Addresses:
Enter the MAC addresses of any “trusted” computers on the network and

click the Apply button. You can add two trusted computers. Once added,

these trusted computers will not be affected by the parental control settings.

For example, you may want the computers of the father and mother to be

trusted, while the childrens’ computers have parental controls in effect.
Note: Refer to the “Finding the MAC Address of a Computer” sidebar for in-

formation on determining the MAC address of your computer.
Keyword and Web Site Filtering:
You can add a list of keywords and web sites that you want to block. To add

a keyword or web site to the list, click the respective Add button. To delete

a keyword or web site from the list, ﬁrst click its check box and then click

the Delete button.

Adding a Keyword or Web Site Filter
a) Enter the keyword in the Keyword ﬁeld or web site URL address in the

Web Site ﬁeld.

b) Set the start day and end day for the blocked access. (Sun until Sun in-

dicates all week, or just click the All Week checkbox.)

c) Set the start time and end time during the speciﬁed days (24-hour

clock). (0:00 until 0:00 indicates all day, or just click the All Day check-

box.)

d) Click the Add Keyword Filter or Add Web Site Filter button respec-

tively. Then click the Apply button.

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Add Keyword Filter

Add Web Site Filter

Finding the MAC Address of a Computer

Use the operating system of your computer to ﬁnd its

MAC address, as follows:

Windows: from the Start menu, ﬁnd and select the

Control Panel. Double-click Network Connections

(Windows XP), or Network & Sharing Center (Win-

dows Vista or Windows 7). Then double-click either

“Wireless Network Connection” for a wireless connection,

or “Local Area Connection” for an Ethernet connection.

Next click the Details button (Windows Vista or Windows

7), or click the Support tab and then the Details button

(Windows XP). The “Physical Address” line shows the

MAC address.

MacOS X: open System Preferences and click the Net-

work icon. To ﬁnd the Ethernet MAC address, select

Built-in Ethernet from the Show drop-down, then click

the Ethernet tab. The “Ethernet ID” ﬁeld shows the MAC

address. To ﬁnd the wireless MAC address, select Air-

port from the Show drop-down, then click the Airport

tab. The “Airport ID” ﬁeld shows the MAC address.

Linux: open a shell window and type /sbin/ifconﬁg

(and press Enter). The wireless interface is eth1 (unless

there is no Ethernet adapter, in which case the interface

is eth0).

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