Router with allow / Block website capability

[mahendra_89]

Hello,

I am looking for a router that supports the below requirements:
1. Allow / Block websites or URL (Around 500-800 Websites)
2. Supports Firewall Settings configuration (i.e. open or close specific ports).
3. Allows full internet access (no blocking of websites or URL) to particular user or IP-address whenever needed.

Can you please recommend a router that does the above-mentioned feature?

Thanks in Advance

 

[nitinvaid20]

hmm i am using R7000 Router but with the Custom Tomato Firmware and i have access and blocking of everything can see per device IP realtime bandwidth tracking and other lots of things

whats your budget?

 

[mahendra_89]

hmm i am using R7000 Router but with the Custom Tomato Firmware and i have access and blocking of everything can see per device IP realtime bandwidth tracking and other lots of things

whats your budget?

hello nitinvaid20,

Thanks for the quick reply. I checked the R7000 router manual, but i did not find anything that says it allows / blocks around 500 websites.

Does this router support that long allow list after upgrading Tomato Firmware?

I can spend around 25000 for router.

Thanks

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Build a dedicated PFSense box, or set it up in an existing computer with a dual lan port card and run it in a VM. Get the following:

1) ITX case.
2) ITX motherboard which has at least 2 lan ports (or you can get a case which will take an add in card and get a dual or quad lan port card).
3) Small 64gb SSD (or you can get the PFSense which runs off a USB stick).
4) 2-4GB of RAM.

or

1) have existing computer in use.
2) buy a dual lan port card and install it.
3) install Virtualbox and create a PFSense virtual machine.

Assemble the computer or install the card (and virtualbox), install PFSense, then plug the input RJ45 port of the PFSense router (designated LAN port) to a switch which handles all the local computers), plug the output RJ45 port to the cable modem. Everything then runs through the PFSense routers and the router rules enable/restrict whatever you need.

I'm not sure which currency you're using, but you should be able to build a dedicated box for about $250 USD. ($50 case/PSU, $50-100 motherboard/cpu, $20 additional lan card, $40 RAM). You also don't need anything super expensive or high end. The performance of the ARM chips in most routers is a tiny fraction of a regular x86 CPU core, so this will run circles around anything you can buy, especially if you eventually decide to permanently attach to a VPN. The x86 core can handle a huge amount of encrypting/decrypting when compared to the ARM cores.

I've done both. I had it running in a cheap used Dell i3-2120 machine with a used LAN card. It was running virtualized in VirtualBox under Win7 and it ran just fine for months on end. I then switched over to a dedicated home built rack unit using a used Supermicro X7SPE-HF-D525 (ITX board with dual lan and a dual core Atom D525 w/hyperthreading w/4GB RAM). Old HDD. Uses darn little power. Currently all my traffic runs encrypted to my VPN provider and the load usage is well under 5%.

 

[nitinvaid20]

hmm i am using R7000 Router but with the Custom Tomato Firmware and i have access and blocking of everything can see per device IP realtime bandwidth tracking and other lots of things

whats your budget?

hello nitinvaid20,

Thanks for the quick reply. I checked the R7000 router manual, but i did not find anything that says it allows / blocks around 500 websites.

Does this router support that long allow list after upgrading Tomato Firmware?

I can spend around 25000 for router.

Thanks

The stock firmware dont have all those features you have to flash firmware like Tomato, DD-wrt, Asus Merlin
search each firmware google on it there features and all you are from which state? and for what purpose you need the router