If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

TP Link Deco Parental Controls & Google Home

Seve OB · 2021-12-27 16:04:41

I'm a newbie to this kind of thing. Up till last week, I had the internet and that was about all I knew! But it was always a bit crap, I kinda knew what a mesh network was and that we could probably do with one, so now I have invested in a Deco M5 setup and I'm not much the wiser to be honest. As part of the setup, we…

27-12-2021 4:04pm

#1

Seve OB

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,128 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2004

Posts: 15532

I'm a newbie to this kind of thing. Up till last week, I had the internet and that was about all I knew! But it was always a bit crap, I kinda knew what a mesh network was and that we could probably do with one, so now I have invested in a Deco M5 setup and I'm not much the wiser to be honest. As part of the setup, we implemented the parental controls, which is a pretty good idea actually as our kids are about to hit their teens.
But my eldest now keeps coming to me telling me that the internet won't work. After a while I realised that her daily time limit was used up and that was why. This works for us, great idea that we can restrict the time she spends online.
She has a laptop and a google home mini. I've bumped her allowance to 5 hours a day for the holidays. She just came to me saying the internet is not working again, but that she has only been on her laptop for about 10 minutes today and played the radio on her google home for about an hour. I clicked through the Deco App and it checks out.
However, it also tells me the 4.3 hours have been spent on connectivitycheck.gstatic.com. A quick google tells me that this might be something that her google mini is running in the background. But why and how do I turn it off? It is eating up her online time allowance. I've now had to disable the parental controls on her profile. It's a bit pointless having parental controls and restricting time, if background activity means I have to turn off the feature.

0