Child has VPN bypassing parental controls

Question

Hello there,&nbsp;I have two teenage boys who have very cleverly figured out if the download a vpn onto their devices they can bypass the child safe settings I have on the router. Any way around this please?&nbsp;

Client62 · Answer

Parents give adult tools to infants and are then shocked when the unexpected happens.I can imagine kids at school have a golden pages on this topic and maintain detailed notes on how torapidly bypass the parental controls offered by ISPs from A&amp;A to Zen !

legacy1 · Answer

Tudor&nbsp;wrote:That’s all well and good, but a pin-hole reset of the hub will negate this and most situations including modem mode and your own router.lock hub and router in a box😋....until they learn to picklock&nbsp;

Tudor · Answer

"The big red switch", about the only thing you can do is turn off the power! There are various things you can do, but you need very expensive and technical equipment to get anywhere defeating teenagers these days. You don’t even need a VPN, all you do is change the DNS servers on the device used. Really it’s all down to education.&nbsp;

Cardiffman282 · Answer

The simple answer is have the conversation.&nbsp;&nbsp;A techie answer is to stick the hub in modem mode and use your own router ensuring that its firewall blocks ports 443 (tcp) and 1194 (udp). This is not foolproof and might also block work VPN connections WFH.&nbsp;

legacy1 · Answer

Lizziefinigan1&nbsp;wrote:Hello there,&nbsp;I have two teenage boys who have very cleverly figured out if the download a vpn onto their devices they can bypass the child safe settings I have on the router. Any way around this please?&nbsp;So not that&nbsp;cleverly he only needed to change DNSVM can only do so much before it gets out of hand to the point it still is not enough&nbsp; &nbsp;

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