this has been bugging me for a while my nephew is on world of war craft, for 4 hours a day and isnt doing so well with his grades, so i first though well ill just block the ports to router and that should be fine untill he picks up his grades, little did i know this kid gets smart and hops on another wifi connnection to bypass my firewall in place, lol how can i go about making a policy to locking him down to one certain ssid and cannot make changes i went into gpedit and didnt see anything. ive already made hime a regular user and my self the admin
policy that enforced only 1 certain wifi
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Xander
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Parental invovlement and discipline?
Seriously. This shouldn't be a "tech" issue. This is a family matter and the kid's parents need to step up and do their jobs.
Seriously. This shouldn't be a "tech" issue. This is a family matter and the kid's parents need to step up and do their jobs.
Ccomp5950
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You are going to have a hell of a time restricting SSID's.
Try this instead...
https://us.battle.net/account/parental-controls/index.html
Try this instead...
https://us.battle.net/account/parental-controls/index.html
14049752
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Just set up parental control on the wow account if that's all you're trying to block.
As for the network you could set the,. router to an unusual ip range then set his computer to a static ip on that range. As a limited user he wouldn't be able to change ip settings and connecting to another router wouldn't get him online at all
As for the network you could set the,. router to an unusual ip range then set his computer to a static ip on that range. As a limited user he wouldn't be able to change ip settings and connecting to another router wouldn't get him online at all
MobileTechie
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How can he just hop onto another wifi connection? Surely if that wifi is also the family's then you can restrict that too. And if it's a neighbour's then let the neighbour know so he can lock it down.
Which version of Windows is he using? The Pro versions allow all sorts of restrictions through group policy but the home ones don't. So 14049752's suggestion is a neat idea for that situation.
You can get clever with say XP home and sort of get gpedit functions. Read here: http://bogdan.org.ua/2007/11/15/win...it-msc-group-policy-editing-via-registry.html
GPOs usually have related registry settings so you can do most of it in the registry e.g. http://www.j79zlr.com/gphome.php#NetworkConections
Amongst all that you should be able to restrict his ability to make network changes and then the ability to edit the registry to undo them - which he almost certainly would do given time. Of course if he has an admin account then he can undo anything you do. And since resetting the admin password is trivial, there is nothing permanent you can really do to someone with physical access to the machine. For instance he could just create a partition and install a second copy of windows to use for gaming.
Which version of Windows is he using? The Pro versions allow all sorts of restrictions through group policy but the home ones don't. So 14049752's suggestion is a neat idea for that situation.
You can get clever with say XP home and sort of get gpedit functions. Read here: http://bogdan.org.ua/2007/11/15/win...it-msc-group-policy-editing-via-registry.html
GPOs usually have related registry settings so you can do most of it in the registry e.g. http://www.j79zlr.com/gphome.php#NetworkConections
Amongst all that you should be able to restrict his ability to make network changes and then the ability to edit the registry to undo them - which he almost certainly would do given time. Of course if he has an admin account then he can undo anything you do. And since resetting the admin password is trivial, there is nothing permanent you can really do to someone with physical access to the machine. For instance he could just create a partition and install a second copy of windows to use for gaming.
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Computer Configureation > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Wireless Network.
Use something like Regshot to capture the changes to the XP Pro registry then apply them to XP home... it should work. Another option might be to make the kid a non-admin and that could restrict his access to configure the network settings... maybe
Use something like Regshot to capture the changes to the XP Pro registry then apply them to XP home... it should work. Another option might be to make the kid a non-admin and that could restrict his access to configure the network settings... maybe
Knightsman
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I think its a bad idea to restrict his wifi, then he cant use it when he is away.
What OS does he have?
What OS does he have?
ATTech
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+1 for the parental controls on the WoW Account. Is this like an older nephew who hasn't moved out of the house and pays for his own account, or is this a younger one still in grade school, whose parents are paying for the account? Are you collaborating with the parents on this, or are they being kept out of it.
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I worked in a school for a while and I can tell you some kids are pretty determined game players. Without intervention some will literally spend all day playing games. Thinking about it, if we'd had computers in my school (we had one, on a trolley) I'd have been one of those kids!
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+1 Tell the kid NO if he doesn't lessen take his computer away. I think its funny how people always want to find a way for there kinds to do what they want without them being the bad guy, lol.
This would work if your IP was crazy. If you have 192.168.0.1 or 1.1 then there a 50/50 chance the other network would be the same.
Personally I would just take the wifi card out and hand him a cat5 cable.
lol
thanks guys for all the posts, Windows 7 is installed on the current computer i looked into the group policys, and local policys and changed a few settings and for some reason there still not being enforced ,i can easily go into world of war craft and just uninstall it, but for future refrence in a professional stand point , if im ever asked to lock down the computer so the kid cant change to a diffrent ssid, i want to be able to say yes, and actually do it.
thanks guys for all the posts, Windows 7 is installed on the current computer i looked into the group policys, and local policys and changed a few settings and for some reason there still not being enforced ,i can easily go into world of war craft and just uninstall it, but for future refrence in a professional stand point , if im ever asked to lock down the computer so the kid cant change to a diffrent ssid, i want to be able to say yes, and actually do it.
14049752
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I was thinking something like 172.21.37.0-255 range.
Y'know, an IP address that I'd guess that most people would think is public.
