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Issue Blocking Websites with Linksys Router

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edgeh2o

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My roommate and people he invites over keep downloading torrents from public sites and I've gotten 3 emails from Comcast so far. I've talked to him, but I want to make it impossible for him to be able to download them...

I have a Linksys WRT54G router.

I've made 6 internet access policies in the Access Restrictions settings of my router, but for some reason only the 1st policty works. I had 'torrent' as a keyword on the first policy, and when I googled most popular torrent sites it wouldn't let me... so I took 'torrent' off the keyword list and did my google search, and after I wrote down the 40 most popular public torrent sites, I added torrent back as a keyword for website blocking and saved it, but now it doesn't work for some reason. So at first it worked, then I took it off so I could search using the keyword torrent, then I added it back again and saved it and now it doesn't work.

I'm out of ideas, not to mention only the 1st policy works (besides the torrent keyword). I have all my policies enabled, have set ip ranges from 0-254 for all of them, and gave them each a name.

How come only the first policy works, and how come all the keywords in the first policy work except one after I deleted it and then re-added it?
 
I just answered my own question.

For some reason, I had to do a DHCP release/renew from the Status setting tab in the Linksys Preferences. After this all my policies work as does the torrent keyword once again.
 
Just went to make sure it was still working, and none of my settings are working!

I'm able to goto any of the websites I listed as restricted and use any of the keywords that I restricted.

I don't get it. What's the point of having the access restricted tab if it doesn't work???
 
Updated my firmware from 2007 to 2011... reset all my access restrictions... works for now... if it doesn't work again tomorrow night or the next night, I'm going to throw my Linksys router in the swimming pool and get an ASUS (RT-N56U) or Netgear N600 or something
 
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