Belkin Network Router user manual Introduction, Parental Control-Web Content Filtering

INTRODUCTION

Parental Control—Web Content Filtering

Your Belkin Router ships with this powerful feature, unique in the marketplace, which gives you the ability to restrict and monitor web surfing from all PCs connected to it. Unlike other products, Belkin Parental Control—Web Content Filtering, requires no software installation on your PCs; everything is internal to the Router. This feature is provided FREE for six months with every Belkin Router purchase. After that, a nominal subscription fee goes into effect, renewable once per year. Unlike other products, Parental Control allows your subscription to cover your entire network with no “per PC” charges.

How Belkin Parental Control Works

Once Belkin Parental Control is enabled, every web request, or “get”, results in two requests from the Router, one for the site itself, and the second for an approval (Yes or No) from Belkin. The rating is retrieved from our database of over 2.5 million sites. If the response is “Yes”, then the website is passed to the computer, usually with zero delay. If the response is “No”, then the website will not be displayed and the computer will be shown a Policy Violation screen stating why the website was denied.

If the requested website is within the web filter database, the answer will be instantaneous, and usually will cause no delay. However, if the site requested is not in the database, the web filter will instantly rate the site (give it a real-time rating) and add it to the database. Sites that require real-time ratings sometimes take between 1 and 5 seconds to complete. In most cases, the user will not perceive a delay. Sites that are not in the database represent a small percentage of total sites. Real-time rating is extremely useful for stopping new pornography sites as they appear.

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