so you dont want your kids hogging your internet then go out and buy them devices almost entirely suited to internet use? what should they do sit in mcdonalds all night?
Hey, who said I bought them ipods? Thats the joy of grandperants. Not that it's anybody's business.
There are a large number of reasons these days that many people wish to control access to they're wi-fi though. In this case it's got nothing to do with 'hogging' the bandwidth and everything to do with stopping trouble and keeping them safe. You don't know the circumstances and I'm not about to discuss them here, but when it's of such a serious nature as to threaten your Kids safety you come to reluctantly realise that there's more important things in life than letting your kids have access to the net. Parenting is a thing that's changing and technology is amplifying problems and dangers. There's a lot written about this stuff. If you're lucky enough to have never had problems from your kids on the net, then I'm really happy for you (although it could well be that they had problems and you never knew about it), but many people, like myself, have seen serious issues arise.
You can't even imagine how hard a decision it was to controlling access (goes against everything I believe in), or even the various situations that have brought us to this point. It's easy to judge when you don't know the facts. Trust me on this, any responsible person would have ended up making the same decision in this situation.
Also, an ipod is just one of those modern devices that blurs the line in terms of what it actually is, but I'm fairly sure that it's original and therefor true purpose is to play music. Grandparents don't know about the other things they can do.
Anyway, from what I remember, MAC numbers are specific to each wifi device(unlike IP adresses for instance that change). So by the looks of the controls on my router I need to know which device has which MAC number and allow those MAC numbers as trusted. Does this sound correct?
I know how to find the MAC numbers of my laptops, but not sure about the xbox. Anybody know how to do this?