How to Keep your kids safe from unsuitable websites

If you want to learn how do you use your router to monitor which websites are visited and  check which sites has been opened on your home network without checking on your  children’s laptops then you are at the right place. Lets begin.

To start, set up an OpenDNS account (opendns.com) and change your router settings to add the OpenDNS server. With OpenDNS, you can easily monitor activity, block content, and set up extra measures to fend off identity theft – all with their free Family Shield and Home options. This is a solid solution if you don’t need to break visits down by device – it’s a little harder to monitor which laptop is visiting which site than it is to see all traffic over the router.

If you simply want to restrict visits to websites that you consider objectionable and not monitor the activity of each individual on your network, you can also do this via OpenDNS. They have both free and paid services, but free should do the trick if you just want to block a certain type of website, or if there are particular websites you want to block. You can also use OpenDNS to log each URL visited, but the last time we used OpenDNS we couldn’t see which device on our network was visiting the site. If you want to try it, just get OpenDNS and enable ‘stats and logs’, which should at least show you what sites are being visited.