Stopping wi-fi overnight

k3lvc

Not necessarily helpful to OP but BT has this functionality built in - dead easy to control when the kids (or other visitors) can access wi-fi. Doesn't help as they age and get 4G but then they can pay the bill and sometimes money talks

DCFC79

Inner_Zone wrote: »

But don't they have 3G / 4G capable mobile phones?

OTT but the OP could ask all phones, tablets to be locked away before they go to bed.

Suggestions were on a program last week I think, maybe something like Watchdog.

Inner_Zone

Not OTT, look at the broader picture. If they can't get Wi-Fi they may just use their phones (if capable) instead. Hence disabling the Wi-Fi may not achieve very much if they still have access to their phones.

Gloomendoom

Maybe lining their bedrooms with chicken wire or similar to create Faraday cages would block both wifi and 3/4g.

[Deleted User]

Thank you for the great (and some fun) suggestions. The phones - they pay for and they'll get fed up with that!

boliston

One of my workmates (a teenager) lives with his parents and they have simply put a mains time switch on the router to stop overnight surfing - I said why not just get a 3g dongle and he said he did not like the idea of having to pay for the internet!

phillw

esuhl wrote: »

Nope -- disabling wifi over night, won't affect wireless speeds at any other time.

Disabling wifi won't, but turning off your adsl router might. ADSL Max, which most people are on these days, will detect that you have connectivity issues and lower the speed until it gets reconnected. When you turn your router back on in the morning it will assume that slowing the line down fixed the issue.

boliston wrote: »

One of my workmates (a teenager) lives with his parents and they have simply put a mains time switch on the router to stop overnight surfing

You're at the mercy of ADSL Max and what stops someone getting up in the night and plugging the router into a socket?

If you buy a "cable" router (which is a router without a modem) then you can plug that into a sky router, disable the sky wifi and not have to worry about getting hold of the username/password from sky. When you change providers next, you unplug and discard the sky router, plug the new router in (disable wifi) and plug your "cable" router into it. You don't need to reconfigure any devices. You'll probably end up running "double NAT" unless you can switch the ISP's router to modem only mode. This has positives and negatives, but for phone usage it won't make a difference.

It's still possible to work round the restriction if they are prepared to spend time and money on it though.

You could always try talking to them.

lstar337

Robin9 wrote: »

Your teens will be tech savvy - it will take them less than a day to find a work around.

Most teens can crack a router password?

I don't think so.

lstar337

boliston wrote: »

One of my workmates (a teenager) lives with his parents and they have simply put a mains time switch on the router to stop overnight surfing - I said why not just get a 3g dongle and he said he did not like the idea of having to pay for the internet!

Terrible idea. Everytime the router gets turned off the exchange will think it is a disconnection and bump the speed down a level.

lstar337

Mister_G wrote: »

I'll re-iterate my earlier post and suggest that you make sure that you can get hold of your Sky login details before splashing out on a new router.

Sky will not give you the login details, you need to hack the hub to extract them and it isn't the simplest process for a novice.

Furthermore, it is in Sky's terms that you must use their own hub.

Shame really because their hub is really carp. Only 100Mb LAN, only 2.4GHz WiFi, and the modem isn't anything special either.