How do I block a device from my home WiFi?

The WiFi Blocker app will change the way you WiFi and control your home network. With WiFi Blocker you can block any individual or group of devices from internet access, find your WiFi passwords, see who’s online, group devices into profiles for easy control and organise your network. At the push of a button your children are offline. The ideal parental control companion.

Take Control of your WiFi

Control your Kids internet access with touch of a button

Setting internet access times and toggling between paused/blocked always (homework, chores), to scheduled (bedtimes), to unrestricted (holidays) couldn’t be easier

Create Profiles to group devices per family member helping organise your network

Restrict bandwidth hogs

Scheduling uses your routers access scheduler to control internet access on a timetable, automatically restricting the internet access at agreed times

Stop smart devices from sending traffic on internet (printers, cctv)

Create People profiles to group devices per user helping organise your network

Schedule automated timed access

Pause internet connections on demand

Play internet connections

See who’s connected to your WiFi!

See who is currently connected to your WiFi router with detailed information per device with Device MAC address, IP Address, Name, Manufacturer, Connection status and Restriction status

Filter to narrow devices by All, Active, Inactive, Blocked, Scheduled.

Rename devices to friendly names and give each device a display order for each management of devices

See which devices in your network are still powered on (that should be turned off – helping encourage good habits)

WiFi Blocker User Stories

Typical scenarios you may be facing…

In the News

This Morning’s Alison Hammond praised for ‘strict’ rules with furious teenage son using our WiFi Blocker App. Read More

“What I did early on is I downloaded an app called WiFi Blocker,” she said.

“My son will absolutely hate the fact that I’m telling everybody this but it was the best £5 I ever invested.”

Lauren, Reason we made the app

Before

Time: 1.30am, School night. Dad finds Lauren(age 13) in bed with her iPad.

Dad “LAUREN IT’s 1.30 AM!”. 

Lauren and Dad proceed in actual tug of war for iPad.

After

Lauren’s internet gets blocked at 8pm automatically, Lauren realises her iPad is pretty useless without internet, and is asleep by 9pm most nights. Occasionally get “STUART. WiFi” reminders to switch back on her WiFi, or with router scheduling her internet is automatically available from 7am. 

Dad still enjoys toggling her WiFi from scheduled to blocked to here her shout downstairs if we’ve not heard from here in a while or its dinner time.

You may want to know if there is an unauthorised or unrecognised device connected to your Wi-Fi and restrict their access by blocking them.

Changing the password is a good way to do this, however, most routers have access control or a Wi-Fi management feature that allows you to block users by blocking their MAC address.

What is a MAC address? 

MAC stands for Media Access Control address and is a unique identifier assigned by the manufacturer and hard-coded on the computer for identification purposes. A MAC address looks like this: 00-15-E8-7B-66-3C

Ways to secure your network

• Secure your network by changing your SSID or changing the Wi-Fi password.
• Make your network invisible and disable your Wi-Fi SSID from broadcasting.
• Mac-address filtering.

Change Router Password. 

You can read our helpful How to change your router's Wi-Fi password article with instructions to help you create your unique and strong router password.

Mac-address filtering

Mac-address filtering denies any unwanted users access to the internet via your router.

To do this you need to find the unwanted device’s MAC address that is connected to the router.

Ensure you know the MAC address of your PC before enabling MAC filtering to avoid any problems.

How to find the MAC Address of your PC

• Open Command Prompt on your PC.
• Type ipconfig/all  and hit the Enter button.

• In the details provided, you will see a physical address similar to this: G8-2B-72-EF-D6-8D

This is your computers MAC address.

How to turn on MAC filtering on your D-Link router

• Log in to the router.

Log in to the router. 

Read our helpful How to log into a router article with easy instructions to assist you.

• Select the ‘Advanced’ tab from the menu at the top of the page.

• Select ‘Network Filter’ from the menu on the left-hand side.

• This will take you to the Mac-Filtering page.
  Under ‘Configure MAC Filtering below:’, click on the drop-down menu and select the option that best suits your requirements.
  “Turn MAC Filtering ON and ALLOW computers listed to access the network” or
  “Turn MAC Filtering ON and DENY computers listed to access the network”.

• Select the device from the DHCP Client List drop-down menu, where it says Computer Name.

• Select the arrow button to the left and the MAC Address of that device will be detected automatically and filled in to block to the left under MAC Address.

• Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on  the ‘Save Settings’ button.

Your router will restart and no unauthorized devices will be allowed to connect to your internet.

REMEMBER! 

If you select “Turn MAC Filtering ON and ALLOW computers listed to access the network". You will need to add each device to have access to your network.