Blocking Facebook, Using a2wireBTBusinessHub-572

[b3rt]

Hi can you help,

I have searched the inet all day for this, making me nearly as bad as my employee im talking about.

I have an employee who is a great employee when not distracted, i have invested a lot of time and money into her. WHen things arnt going her way and sales are slow instead of peservering she is persistantly on facebook.

She is happy to give up her phone so she cant go on it when questioned about it, but is getting a bit sligh on the minimising facebook.

Ive read peoples blogs before and sacking her isn't an option.

I have looked on the router for a simple settings to change it. Its a very basic control pannel and there is no way of entering anything into it like there is on my home router whihc is a netgear,

Im not very technically minded, so setting up a server etc aint really going to help, is there anything i can do at the router side?

 

[Drake2007]

I have looked on the router for a simple settings to change it. Its a very basic control pannel and there is no way of entering anything into it like there is on my home router which is a netgear,

swap the routers ?

 

[gregmcc]

You would probably need a proxy server to block facebook. This would at least give you some control over the sites that people visit. Facebook might be the least of your problem,s - Joe Bloggs might be visiting far worse sites.

Otherwise install some web blocking software on her machine - netnanny/ k9 comes to mind. Do a search for web blocking software - there's loads out there, free and commercial.

 

[JazzeD]

put www.facebook.com in the host file with ip 127.0.0.1
and apps.facebook.com with ip 127.0.0.2

normal user will never figure that one out.

oh the host file is in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
for XP

add

www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1
apps.facebook.com 127.0.0.2

 

[Mypro-D]

I guess that's pretty much the same as this...

http://technology.iafrica.com/swissarmy/672080.htm

 

[Empiricism Philosopher]

Get fire wall add a password, block the site?

 

[gregmcc]

put www.facebook.com in the host file with ip 127.0.0.1
and apps.facebook.com with ip 127.0.0.2

normal user will never figure that one out.

A normal user won't, but a normal user and google will. Never put it past a determined user

 

[JazzeD]

Put googles ip as facebook, that wil be funny.
See how long the user get routed around and around till they start hitting the PC.

 

[Bismuth]

You would probably need a proxy server to block facebook. This would at least give you some control over the sites that people visit. Facebook might be the least of your problem,s - Joe Bloggs might be visiting far worse sites.

Otherwise install some web blocking software on her machine - netnanny/ k9 comes to mind. Do a search for web blocking software - there's loads out there, free and commercial.

I would say setting up a proxy server to access the net is the best option here, otherwise change the ip in the host file is also one. If said user figures out how to change it back, via google or whatever, then a final warning would be an option, possibly.

Although, using web blocking software might be simpler and cheaper. I do know that some AVs can block certain websites.

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