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Home Halo alternative

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digp
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Is anyone able to please recommend an alternative or better than Home Halo?

The net controls are insufficiently granular with our ISP it is a block all or nothing per blocking category & I would like greater control. Thanks.

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  • Rubidium
    Rubidium Posts: 663 Forumite
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    Are you aware of openDNS here
  • digp
    digp Posts: 2,013 Forumite
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    Yes, the supplied router pathetically does not support alternative DNS.
  • Rubidium
    Rubidium Posts: 663 Forumite
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    Routers are cheap as chips, so get yourself a real router that does!
  • Are you able to disable DHCP on your router? If you have another device on your network that can run a DHCP server, you could configure that to hand out the OpenDNS addresses on client registration. e.g. I've disabled my Sky router (in the past), and now my BT router - they just act as a NAT device. I have a Synology NAS that I use for DHCP - does the job a treat.
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