Comments on: A second router protects adults from kids

Installing a second router on your home network can segment the adult computers from those used by children.

[blsith]

I just looked at his diagram, and I'd be concerned over "double nat" as it is often called. Every time you have to do a port translation, you take a risk of applications just not working properly.

It's a very inexpensive way to protect your network, and on the same price schedule I can't think of a better alternative.. but man, double nat can just be harsh. Sure hope Mom and/or Dad do not do any level of remote work that needs a VPN...

[mhinnewyork]

Good point. I'm going to set up this type of network connection, live with it for a few days and I'll followup with any gotchas. There are different types of VPNs, I use an SSL VPN and we'll see how that works... Michael Horowitz

[alegr]

Why you'd want all that? Just make sure your kids and spouse don't have Administrator privileges (and you, too, on your regular account). That's enough to stop the viruses.

[nenslo]

The main problem with this idea that I can see is that it doesn't protect kids from themselves. I think the adage "prevention is better than the cure" works in this situation. The key here is education, if parent's can't be bothered to at least keep an eye on what their children are doing then they should at least help them learn to protect themselves from viruses and malware.

Simply separating yourself from your children does not absolve you of your responsibilities; you wouldn't let an unwell child play with other kids who could catch their bug, so why think it's ok for it to happen over the internet?

[jgoto]

Correct me if I'm wrong but this solution may not protect the data of the parents network. If a computer on the kids network gets spyware(something very possible) that is sophisticated enough to use ARP poisoning, couldn't it reroute all the traffic on both networks through the infected machine and harvest sensitive internet traffic. It might not get banking information which is encrypted, but stuff like email usernames and passwords are often sent unencrypted and it could steal that information.