Home Network Parental Control Software

Home networks can be set up with or without Internet access, using various combinations of computer hardware and software. Setting up a home network allow users to share files, share printers, share broadband Internet access, play network games and much more. Before setting up your own network, the network as well as what you wish for the network to accomplish must be established.

A Brief Introduction on Home Network

A home network or home area network (HAN) is a residential local area network (LAN). It is used for communication between digital devices typically deployed in the home, usually a small number of personal computers and accessories, such as printers and mobile computing devices. An important function is the sharing of Internet access, often a broadband service through a fiber-to-the-home, cable TV, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) or mobile broadband internet service provider (ISP). If the ISP only provides one IP address, a router including NAT proxy server and typically a network firewall, allows several computers to share the IP address. The router may be emulated by a PC with several network interfaces, but today a dedicated hardware router is more common, often including a wireless access point, providing WiFi access.

How Home Networking Works

Once, home networks were primarily the realm of technophiles -- most families either didn't need or couldn't afford more than one computer. But now, in addition to using computers for e-mail, people use them for schoolwork, shopping, instant messaging, downloading music and videos, and playing games. For many families, one computer is no longer enough to go around. In a household with multiple computers, a home network often becomes a necessity rather than a technical toy.

A home network is simply a method of allowing computers to communicate with one another. If you have two or more computers in your home, a network can let them share:

Files and documents

An Internet connection

Printers, print servers and scanners

Potential Dangers of Home Networking Sharing

Virus. When downloading a shared file, one of the inherent dangers is to unknowingly download a computer virus or Trojan horse onto your computer.

Pornographic downloads. Today, 35% of all peer-to-peer downloads are related to pornographic material. This equates to approximately 1.5 billion pornographic file downloads every month. When children access a pornographic website, usually what they end up viewing is a number of still photographs of objectionable material.

Spyware. Many of the peer-to-peer applications are now installing spyware on your computer as part of the P2P installation process.

Illegal, unethical, and immoral. Most of the file sharing activities are focused on illegal, unethical, or immoral activity. Downloading of copyrighted music, copyrighted software, pornographic material, and even child pornography are the most common uses of peer-to-peer file sharing.

SurveilStar Any Parental Control -- Excellent Home Network Parental Control

Network parental controls provide software solutions for parents to control their children's Internet usage by blocking harmful websites, forums and instant messaging. Network parental controls work like a babysitter for your child online. It keeps them safe from possible sexual predators and harmful images or text. The main functions of this Home Network Parental Control Software are the following aspects:

Take Screen Snapshots

Watch real-time screen to monitor what they your children are doing, multi-screen monitoring is available. Or simply record their screen snapshots and view the screen history whenever you are free.

Email Monitoring

Record all emails sent and received with details, support web mail, email clients, Lotus and Exchange. Allow or block outgoing emails with filtering email address, subject, domain, attachment and email size.

Instant Message Monitoring

Record all instant messages sent and received by MSN/Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, QQ, ICQ, etc. Control sending IM files by name, and size. Backup sent IM files.

Website Visit Monitoring

Record all visited websites with HTML tile and URL. Support IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and many more browsers. And this Home Network Parental Control also can be used in many browsers such as IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and etc.