Auto switch wifi off at night - Help

[IceBoy]

Hi All,

I Have BT broadband and one of their home hubs.

I also have teenage boys who end up staying up far too late playing fortnite or YouTube etc.

Is there a way that would enable the WiFi to stop transmitting at say 1am and coming back on at 5am???

Iceboy

[stevensdrs]

You can use the access control feature to block selected devices or all devices on the network. Instructions are on the BT help pages.

[NorthDave]

You can easily do this with better grade WiFi kit but the cheapest solution would be to put the BTHub on a timer plug - like you might do with a lamp to deter burgulars.

[OldGermanHeaps]

NorthDave said:

You can easily do this with better grade WiFi kit but the cheapest solution would be to put the BTHub on a timer plug - like you might do with a lamp to deter burgulars.

turning the routher off every night will activate dlm on your line which will eventually slow your broadband down during the day.

[BaldOldMan]

Do they have cell phones ?

Do you keep those downstairs ?

Not had BT but there’re should be some sort of admin facility that allows access controls

[richatnort]

There's an app for 1.99 on the Apple app store that connects to your router and does it for you. Told me neighbour about it and now I hear his 13 year old going mental that the wifi is turned off

[Davie_GLA]

Almost all routers will enable you to disconnect the net from the admin panel but if you have anything that relies on it such as sky q or similar or anything that uses cloud storage then that's not a solution.

How tech savvy are you? I have built proxy servers in the past and put certain devices through them. This will give you lots of controls.

[Road2Ruin]

IceBoy said:

Hi All,

I Have BT broadband and one of their home hubs.

I also have teenage boys who end up staying up far too late playing fortnite or YouTube etc.

Is there a way that would enable the WiFi to stop transmitting at say 1am and coming back on at 5am???

Iceboy

The BT home hub has an access control feature that does exactly what you want. It can even shut off selected devices rather than the whole internet.
You will need to access the hub admin page as it is all done from there. BT has a help page to tell you how to do it.
No need for any other equipment.

[Slushbox]

It's BT 'Access Control' in most Home Hubs. Timed exclusion based on Mac Address:

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/113...

Log into the router to set it up.

If the OP has left the default security password on the router (on the plastic card) (s)he should change it pronto. In any case, kids can and do reset routers to defeat access settings.

Also: kids know about free access via BT Wifi (Openzone) and share their parents BT account login passwords around, so turning off your own wifi might have no effect if there's a BT Wifi AP nearby.

Other routers like TP-Link have timed Wifi settings so it's deffo 'off at bedtime.'

[Tyre Smoke]

This might be controversial, but surely you are in charge here? Just tell them it's not happening. Discipline and respect.

Why do you feel the need to switch off the wifi? How do you know they're up late? Presumably you are up or they wake you when they go to bed? So tell them. You're the parent.

[Slushbox]

^^^

Exactly. Beatings should continue until morale improves. :-)

[IceBoy]

Thanks for the info everyone. I shall give the beatings a try..... I mean access the router settings this evening lol.

Kids will be kids and to be honest they are good boys but I was a teenager once and used to sneak down at night to watch the odd horror movie etc..

These days it's about the Internet and you juat get lost for hours!

Thanks all.
Iceboy

[deckster]

I know this comes across as condescending, but you're looking for a technical solution to a non-technical problem. And as above, it's a technical solution which has any numbers of ways around it and you're inviting the kids into a technical war, which (forgive me) you're never going to win.

As has been said, the solution is boundaries and sanctions. Give them a curfew; if they exceed it, that's an hour earlier tomorrow night. If they exceed it again, that's a night off gaming. If they ignore that, then remove their tablets/computers/phones.

Letting them know who's in charge will work. But giving them technical hurdles to jump over will just start something that you can't possibly win.

[snuffy]

My router allows you to set access times for different devices. I don't know if the BT Hub has the same thing, but I suspect it might well do:

[AJB88]

If they have tethering on their phone plan then this wont really stop it as they will just tether instead.

[thebraketester]

AJB88 said:

If they have tethering on their phone plan then this wont really stop it as they will just tether instead.

Gaming tethered to a phone will be very laggy.

[AJB88]

thebraketester said:

Gaming tethered to a phone will be very laggy.

op also mentions youtube etc so not just gaming.

[thebraketester]

Easy to set limits on phones or just take them away from them after a certain time.

Do kids make the rules these days or what?

[Somebody]

I made mine bring their phones downstairs by 10pm and plug in to charge there when they were at school. I also did parental controls on the router to cut internet access for their phones, laptops etc at that time too.