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How to turn off Parental Controls on Any other router

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Routers

Any other router

Also called: Parental Controls, Content Filtering, Family DNS

  1. Open the router’s app, or its web page. The address is on the sticker, often 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1.
  2. Look for Parental Controls, Content Filtering, Access Control or Block Sites, and turn them off.
  3. Check the DNS servers under Internet/WAN and LAN/DHCP. Set them back to automatic.

Family DNS addresses

These DNS servers filter on purpose: 208.67.222.123 (OpenDNS FamilyShield), 1.1.1.3 (Cloudflare for Families), 185.228.168.168 (CleanBrowsing Family).