restricting use of internet

[mikemnf]

My grandchildren are visiting for Christmas and to be the good grandfather I have provided both boys with a computer each and internet access. This has created a problem in that they are up to all hours of the night/next morning chatting with friends, and then are difficult to get up and out of the house the next day. I am quite willing to let them go untill 2 am, which is late in itself but they are 1 1/2 hours ahead of their fiends due to the time zone change, and I don't need them up early the next morning anyway. I don't want to have to stay up to enforce their curfew. Is there some way to time out the computer or internet access? I know I could really become strict and take away use of the computers, and will if I have to, but I would rather just set it up to turn things off instead and not have to haggle with them. There are extenuating circumstance I would rather not get into.

Mike

[dogdude16]

well if you have a router and getting internet from that you can tell the router what time to let the internet be accessed.

[mikemnf]

Thank You dogdude16
I o have a router and will check to see if I can schedule it's use.
As I said, ther are issues to deal with.

Mike

[dogdude16]

if you don't know how to view the parental controls and stuff for mine i put my default gateway # in the address bar and then it asks for a user name and passward and then your in.

[dogdude16]

how is that working out for you?