Belkin F6D3230-4 User guide

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Parental Control
Web Content Filter

Parental Control
Web Content Filter
Manual for Belkin Routers equipped
with Parental Control
• FREE 6 months
• Parental Control
• Blocks Offensive
Web Pages
Note to Parent/Manager
If someone else is setting up your Belkin Router,
see page 13 to determine when to name yourself
as the Parental Control Manager for setup of
Parental Control. The Parental Control Manager
is the individual who is setup as the authority/
decision-maker over each computer’s Internet
access and/or restriction.

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1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Setting Up Parental Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Automatic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Manual Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Using Parental Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Manging Parental Control Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Accessing the Parental Control Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4 Modifying your Parental Control Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5 Using Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6 Subscription Renewal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7 Note to Parental Control Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8 Third Party Software Service Release and Disclaimer . . . . . . . . 14
Table of Contents

Introduction
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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 4 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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The Parental Control Manager
Belkin Parental Control allows for a parent or manager if used in an
office, to be designated as the Parental Control Manager. This is a
role completely separate from that of the Router Administrator, which
is established separately when you set up your Router. It is ideal
in situations where a child in the household, or an employee in an
office, can act as the Router Administrator, but should be restricted in
terms of website access. Once Parental Control is set up,
e-mail notifications will automatically be sent to the Parental Control
Manager whenever the service is disabled, overridden, or when
passwords or e-mail addresses are changed.
Other powerful features of Parental Control are the Parental Control
Manager’s override and filter-customizing capabilities (explained in
detail in the section entitled “Using Parental Control” beginning on
page 6.)
Note: For an additional subscription fee, reporting is available to
show all website usage, allowed or denied, by your network.

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Setting up Parental Control
Automatic Setup
The Router must be connected to the Internet before setting up
Parental Control. If you have not set up the Router to connect to the
Internet, follow the steps in your Quick Installation Guide to set up
the Router before attempting to set up Parental Control.
Automatic setup is the easiest way to get Parental Control up
and running.
After setting up the Router to connect to the Internet for the first
time, a setup page will automatically be displayed when you open
your browser. Follow the steps below.
1. Open a browser on any computer on the network. A page will
be displayed prompting you to sign up for Parental Control
for six months FREE. If this page does not display, follow the
instructions for Manual Setup in the next section of this guide.
2. Select the option that lets you enable Parental Control. If you
click “No Thanks”, you will not be asked to sign up again.
You can manually enable Parental Control at any time later by
following the Manual Setup instructions.
3. You will be prompted to ceate a password and provide an e-mail
address to which change notifications should be sent. Enter the
e-mail address you wish to use, and enter a password to be used
to manage the Parental Control function. Note: This password
is different than the password used to manage the Router and
should be unique to keep unauthorized users from changing the
Parental Control settings.
4. Once you have entered this information, the Parental Control
feature is activated. To view or change the settings, follow
the directions in the section called “Managing Parental
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Setting up Parental Control
Manual Setup
The Router must be connected to the Internet before setting up the
Parental Control feature. Follow the steps in the Quick Installation
Guide to set up the Router before attempting to set up the Parental
Control feature.
1. In your browser, type “192.168.2.1” (do not type in anything else
such as “http://” or “www”). Then press the “Enter” key.
2. Click “Parental Control” on the “Utilities” tab. You will now see
the Parental Control page.
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Setting up Parental Control
4. You will be prompted to create a password and provide an e-mail
address to which change notifications should be sent. Enter the
e-mail address you wish to use, and enter a password to be used
by the Parental Control Manager to monitor the Parental
Control function.
Note: This password is different than the password used to
manage the Router and should be unique to keep unauthorized
users from changing the Parental Control settings.
5. Once you have entered this information, the Parental Control
feature is now activated. To view or change the settings, follow
the directions in the section called “Managing Parental
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Now that Parental Control is activated, objectionable websites will
now be blocked by the Parental Control feature. If a computer
on the network attempts to access a blocked website, a screen will
appear in the web browser stating that that page has been “Blocked
by Parental Control”. Also, the reason for the block will be
stated—for example, “This site was blocked because it is categorized
as pornography.”
There are options on the page that will allow you to do one of
the following:
• Disagree: If you believe that the site has been incorrectly rated,
you can click the “Disagree” button. This will cause the site to be
re-evaluated within 48 hours.
Note: If a particular site continues to be blocked and you do
not agree or want it blocked, you can add the site to a list of
“Overrides” which will permit access to the site regardless of the
rating. See “Change”.
• Change: By clicking the “Change” button, you can modify your
policy to allow the category or to create an override for the
particular site that is blocked. For example, you may decide
to allow a particular category of websites that was previously
blocked. The Parental Control password is required to make
any changes to the policies. For more information on this, see
“Modifying your Parental Control Policies” on page 9 in this
guide.
• Override: You can click the “Override” button and enter the
Parental Control password to override the Parental Control
feature for a period of one hour. This bypasses all Parental
Control features on the computer you are working on, allowing
free surfing to any site on the Internet. Parental Control settings
will remain in effect on all other computers on your network.
CAUTION: The computer on which you entered the override
is now NOT managed by the Parental Control, and will not be
restricted for a period of one hour. That means that anyone who
uses the Internet from this computer will not be protected by
Parental Control until the one-hour period has expired. However,
all other PCs will still be filtered.
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Managing Parental Control Settings
You can perform the following tasks from the Parental Control page.
• View the number of days remaining on your subscription
• Find links to Reporting and Policy Modification (if subscribed)
• Modify your Parental Control categories
• Change notification e-mail
• Change your Parental Control password
• Disable filtering/enable filtering
• Select whether or not to be notified when someone
overrides filtering
• Refresh account settings
• Sign up for and renew your subscription (only when applicable)
Note: Changing most of these settings will generate an e-mail to
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Modifying your Parental Control Policies
A list of 59 categories is provided to give a wide array of
customizable options for Parental Control. Categories can be blocked
or allowed. Blocked categories have been set up by default, so initial
use of Parental Control will immediately begin blocking websites that
could be objectionable. You can modify the categories at any time
you wish. Additionally, any website can be set to always be allowed,
or always blocked, regardless of the category.
There are two ways to get to the policy administration site.
1. Every time access to a blocked website is attempted, a Policy
Violation screen will be shown. These screens offer a link to the
Policy Administration page, and require the Parental Control
password be entered for access.
2. There is a link in the Router firmware Parental Control page to the
Policy Administration page. The Parental Control password will
be required.
After logging into the Policy Administration site, choose one of
the following:
1. “Policy Administration” tab to choose which categories to block.
2. “Overrides” tab to enable specific URLs to either be “always
blocked” or “always allowed”, regardless of policy settings.
3. “Reporting” tab (if you have purchased a subscription to
Reporting). Clicking this tab will allow you to review web-surfing
history, both for blocked and allowed sites.
Note: If a single computer overrides Parental Control for one
hour, or if Parental Control is turned OFF on the Router, web
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Overriding the Parental Control Feature
The override function allows a parent or manager to access websites
that children or workers are prevented from accessing. Belkin
recommends that Parental Control Managers who frequently override
elect not to be notified to reduce e-mail traffic.
How the Override Function Works
With filtering turned on, each policy-violation screen provides a
prompt for override. If you wish to override filters and surf without
restrictions and if you have the Parental Control password, you can
override the Parental Control feature temporarily. When an override
is requested, the Router allows ONLY the requested PC to surf
unrestricted for one hour. All other PCs will remain filtered. Overriding
is only permitted from one PC at a time.
Filtering will resume automatically after a period of one hour. If you
wish to continue the override, you will need to reenter the Parental
Control password. (Parental Control will prompt for the password
every hour.)
Enabling/Disabling the Parental Control Feature
The Parental Control Administrator can choose to enable or disable
filtering as desired during the FREE six-month period or
annual subscription.
8. In your browser, type “192.168.2.1” (do not type in any lead
characters, such as “http://” or “www”). Then press the
“Enter” key.
9. Click “Parental Control” on the “Utilities” tab. You will now see
the Parental Control page.
10. Click “Disable” or “Enable” and enter your password.
Note: When filtering is disabled in this way, filtering will be
disabled on all PCs connected to the Router.
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If you opt to subscribe to Parental Control’s Reporting feature (an
extra fee is required), you will be able to access reports in two ways.
Note: The Reporting screen is a tab on the Change Policy screen
discussed previously.
1. Every time access to a blocked website is attempted, a Policy
Violation screen appears. These screens offer a link to the Policy
Administration page, and require the Parental Control password
to be typed in for access.
2. There is a link in the Router’s Parental Control page to the
Reporting page, and access to the Reporting page requires the
Parental Control password.
After logging into the Reporting site, the Parental Control Manager
can click the Reporting tab to review web-surfing history, both for
blocked and allowed sites. Note: If a single computer overrides
Parental Control for one hour, or if Parental Control is turned OFF on
the Router, web access during these periods will not result in history
information in Reporting.
Advanced
Clicking the Advanced tab will allow the user to modify the default
timeout settings. When using Parental Control, the Router checks
each web request against the user’s Internet policy. Generally, this
rating takes less than one second to obtain. However, if the rating
site is temporarily down, or if a previously un-rated website takes
longer than usual to load and be dynamically rated, the Router will
timeout after 10 seconds. Default settings dictate to block all sites on
timeouts, however, the user can choose to allow all sites
after timeouts.
Refresh
This feature is only used if the Parental Control settings on the Router
(e.g., expiration date) become corrupted. Pressing this button causes
the Router to request an updated setting from Belkin.
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Subscription Renewal
Automatic: When your Parental Control is 15 days from expiration,
the Router will begin to prompt once per day for renewal. Additionally,
an e-mail will be sent stating that it is time to renew, to avoid service
disruption. If you elect to renew, you will be prompted to enter your
credit card information through Belkin’s secure website.
Manual: You can log in to the advanced user interface of the Router
(see manual), select “Parental Control”, and select “Renewal”. You will
be prompted to enter your credit card information through Belkin’s
secure web site. Renewal is not possible until 15 days
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Note to Parental Control Manager
Belkin Parental Control uses a password (different than the Router
Administrator password) to control policies for web blocking on the
Internet. It also uses an e-mail address to notify the Parental Control
Manager of overrides or attempts to bypass content filtering. The
first time a PC tries to surf following the Router’s connection to the
Internet, the user will be prompted to sign up for Parental Control.
During setup (see setup section for a more detailed description), the
user will be prompted to enter an email and password. Be careful
with this password! It will allow your users (children or employees) to
bypass the Parental Control—Web Content Filter. Additionally, the
e-mail address you enter will be the one to which notices will
be sent—so be sure to choose a secure e-mail account so that
unauthorized users can’t delete warning messages.
In the event that a child or employee has set himself up as the
Router Administrator and has already bypassed the Parental Control
setup page, you can easily establish yourself as the Parental Control
Manager. You can do this by initiating setup from the Router
firmware page.
Even if someone else has already signed up to Parental Control, you
can establish yourself as the Parental Control Manager by changing
the password and email address in the Router’s firmware page (see
Managing Parental Control settings).
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Third Party Software Service Release and Disclaimer
THIS AGREEMENT LIMITS YOUR RIGHTS YOU MUST READ THIS
AGREEMENT BEFORE YOU SETUP THIS SOFTWARE
This THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE AND SERVICE RELEASE AND DIS-
CLAIMER (the “Agreement”), is a legal agreement between you (an
individual) and BELKIN CORPORATION (“BELKIN”), regarding the en-
closed third-party parental control web content filter (the “Software”)
that BELKIN has provided to you free of charge. By selecting the box
at the bottom of the Release and Disclaimer page in the Software
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