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Title: Use Timed Access Control to restrict when devices can connect to your Apple base station Wi-Fi
Post by: HCK on December 26, 2015, 09:00:16 am
Use Timed Access Control to restrict when devices can connect to your Apple base station Wi-Fi

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Worried that your teen or tween is spending all night unwired to her or his iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad? Want your always-on Internet of Things device to be not-always-connected? While Mac OS X has timed access controls that let you specify during which hours a computer account may be used as well as a cumulative daily limit, iOS devices lack such options so many years into development, and only some third-party equipment lets you set active hours.</p><p>
But if you have a network of all Apple Wi-Fi base stations, you can set timed access in a manner that sticks for wirelessly connected hardware. The Access Control option only lets you choose days of the week and times of the day to block usage, but it’s effective.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3017158/security/use-timed-access-control-to-restrict-when-devices-can-connect-to-your-apple-base-station-wi-fi.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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