Keep Your Kids Safe
Block porn at home on your wifi network using OpenDNS Family shield
Do you have a number of devices in your home that can access porn such as iPad, iPhone, Samsung, PC, laptop, Xbox and more? Do you have wifi? Then we recommend a free and very easy way to block adult content across all the devices in your home that are using the wifi connection.
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OpenDNS Family Shield is a free and very simple solution. Just go to the link FamilyShield and sign up for free and follow the set up instructions. You will need to know which router you have in your home and you may need help from the person who set up the router, but its fairly simple and takes about 5 minutes (see below).
Please note the following known limitations:
- will not block adult content outside of wifi, so if your child uses switches to the mobile connection such as 3G then this solution will not be able to stop that
- does not stop Google image search results
Setup instructions
1. Open the preferences for your router.Often, the preferences are set in your web browser, via a URL with numbers (example: http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1). You may need a password.
If you're like us, and you set the router password long ago and cannot remember it now, you can often reset the password to the manufacturer default by pressing a button on the router itself.Or preferences may be set via specific application for your router, which you installed on your computer when you added the router.
2. Find the DNS server settings.Scan for the letters DNS next to a field which allows two or three sets of numbers, each broken into four groups of one to three numbers. It might look like this:
3. Put in the OpenDNS server addresses as your DNS server settings and save/apply.Please write down your current settings before entering the OpenDNS addresses, just in case.
4. Cache FlushingOnce you have configured your DNS settings and saved them, we highly suggest that you flush your DNS resolver cache and web browser caches to ensure that your new DNS configuration settings take immediate effect.
5. Test your Settings
NEXT: Test your new settings → If you have any questions on FamilyShield not answered here, feel free to open up a support ticket or ask in the forums.
1. Open the preferences for your router.Often, the preferences are set in your web browser, via a URL with numbers (example: http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1). You may need a password.
If you're like us, and you set the router password long ago and cannot remember it now, you can often reset the password to the manufacturer default by pressing a button on the router itself.Or preferences may be set via specific application for your router, which you installed on your computer when you added the router.
2. Find the DNS server settings.Scan for the letters DNS next to a field which allows two or three sets of numbers, each broken into four groups of one to three numbers. It might look like this:
3. Put in the OpenDNS server addresses as your DNS server settings and save/apply.Please write down your current settings before entering the OpenDNS addresses, just in case.
- 208.67.222.123
- 208.67.220.123
4. Cache FlushingOnce you have configured your DNS settings and saved them, we highly suggest that you flush your DNS resolver cache and web browser caches to ensure that your new DNS configuration settings take immediate effect.
5. Test your Settings
NEXT: Test your new settings → If you have any questions on FamilyShield not answered here, feel free to open up a support ticket or ask in the forums.
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