I have a shaila. I will be setting up a PC for my kids. Occasionally they will need to look up things for school. The rest of the time I do not want them to have access to internet. I am thinking about regulating this via my router, which I can allow or disallow access to a particular machine (via MAC address or other way).
My question is can I set up the wireless in their PC to only use my router’s wireless network name, and not to be able to connect to any other network which may be in range in the neighborhood. I will have administrative privileges (in XP), and the other accounts will not. Will this prevent them from changing the settings and getting access to any other possibly open networks?
I plan to use a filter as well. In the past I have had a problem, because I want them to have email, but they signed up for Yahoo. Yahoo is not a site I like very much, and I found if I blocked Yahoo, it would block Yahoo mail, as well, and vice versa. Can current filters block Yahoo search, but allow Yahoo mail?