Introduction - Belkin Network Router User Manual

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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