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Whether you have kids or not, you're no doubt acutely aware of what a crazy, insane place the Internet can be--even for an adult. As such, many parents want to control, at least to some degree, what the eyes of the innocents in their households can and cannot access on the Internet.

The Internet is a scary place. Now, I'm not a parent yet--but if I were, I'd want to at least try to impose some realistic limits on the internet for my kids. I'm not into shielding kids from too much, but some things (and some sites) just cannot be un-seen, as you may possibly know but not care to admit. Plus, it's probably nice to know that your kids can't browse the Internet a 3 in the morning when they have school in only a few hours.

Fortunately, if you have a WNR3500L, you can use Toastman's excellent Tomato firmware build to set up a variety of settings to restrict Internet access on your router. Here's how.

You may already be familiar with the flash-able, super-powerful WNDR3700--definitely an extreme networking machine.

NETGEAR's WNR2000 V2 is like the WNR3500 V2 router's "little brother." The case itself is almost identical, but inside it uses a less powerful 300Mhz processor and does not support 1Mb wired speeds.

It does support wireless 'N', however, and has an extensive list of features:

Sometimes, all you need are the basics.  Other times, you need to break out the "big guns."  The NETGEAR WNDR3700?  One of the big guns.