I'm on a metered Internet connection and like to disconnect when not actively using it. But I need to keep access to my local network via wifi. I've tried setting my gateway and DNS to manual with garbage settings in my TCP/IPv4 and disabling TCP/IPv6 but I'm still able to get through to the Internet. Is there a trick to this with Win 8.1?
I've tried setting my gateway and DNS to manual with garbage settings in my TCP/IPv4 and disabling TCP/IPv6 but I'm still able to get through to the Internet.
There are other people and things I'd like to keep the Internet available for. One work around I've been using is to configure the router's parental controls to shut down access to particular devices. I would like to be able to accomplish the same locally.
can you be specific on what exactly you are trying to achieve please
Is it only certain devices that you want to disconnect from the internet and would this be at certain times of the day or week ?
What are the devices - PCs with Windows or OSX
Phones , tablets , TVs , other ??
Whats the make and model of the router - some have QoS and can do that other cannot
So you will need to so something on the actual device
The router is a "Linksys EA3500-NP SMART Smooth Stream Gigabit Dual-Band Wireless N750 Router IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, IEEE 802.3/3u/3ab"
The laptop I'm trying to curtail is a Windows 8.1 OS. Other things on the network are Windows 7, 8.1, Android 4 and 5 OS. There is no Apple anything in the house.
There are laptops, desktop PCs, tablets, phones and things that all use the internet intermittently. Some don't use much bandwidth at all because of what they're running. My personal laptop has a few things running like email and I may leave a browser open and sitting on Facebook or whatever. It's not much but it adds up on the useage meter. I can shut it all down but was looking for a simpler solution that I could change a couple settings, possibly make a shortcut and maintain wifi lan access while killing Internet on individual machines.
Question: If I change the gateway and DNS to bogus info and save it, do I have to do anything else to have it take effect, like reboot or something? If that is the case this won't be an acceptable solution as it would negate the simplicity I'm trying to achieve.
I've decided to handle it 2 ways. When I don't need the LAN at all I can just kill my Wifi connection. When I need to local stuff but not the internet I set myself up in the router under parental controls to not have internet access. The only down side of that is occasionally the router wants to do an auto reboot after the settings are changed and it takes a couple minutes for everything to come back up and settle down. Otherwize it will work out fine.
Thank you for all your help and suggestions.
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