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ZyXEL ZyWALL 10A Cable/DSL Router with enhanced security features
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Content Filtration If you are a business owner and you are tired of employees looking at things they shouldn't be, or downloading things they shouldn't be you will love this. If you are a good mother or father who want to shield their children from Drugs, Satan, and Rock and Roll then this is for you. To use the filtration feature of this router, you must have a subscription to the filter list; ZyXEL provides the first six months free, and from there out you are on your own. As you can see in red, "The Filter List has not been loaded". I clicked "Free" in the menu to register for my first free 6 month subscription to the filter service. You are basically paying for a list of sites that are downloaded and loaded to the router so it knows which domains to block... however, with the millions of sites going up PER DAY how effective will the content filtration system be?
Content Filter Testing I checked all the categories, added "warez" and "hard" as two of the words to filter for URLS, and went to Google. A preliminary search for warez brought up the obvious warez.com, which when I attempted to load the router quickly blocked. Next, I went to two sites that I know have the word "Hard" in them, Hardocp.com and Hardforum.com - both were also blocked quickly. When I say "blocked quickly", I mean there was no hesitation from the router, the pages loaded instantly with the simple text message "Please contact your network administrator!!"
Anonymizer, a popular web proxy, and Gambling.com were blocked well enough... A few more tests of Porn sites yielded varying results, a few were blocked and a few others were not. A site on Sex Education showed up just fine, as shown below.
A search on satan led to a few million links on Google, a very large majority that I tested opened and loaded fine. The router did not do it's job in blocking them. All in all, as I have previously mentioned, I believe the content list will always have it's flaws. At the pace the internet is growing, it is truly an impossible task to have a comprehensive list... EVER. I suggest you do your own testing with a combination of the content filtering list and keywords to your in your quest for a safe internet environment for your kids. As for employees, if you try to block entertainment, good luck. Some major sites may be blocked, but anything on the internet is deemed entertainment. If you have a specific task for them to do and ONLY do on the internet, I suggest you limit their browsing to the select few domains you want them to be able to reach. Before I logged out of the Admin area, I made sure to make myself exempt from the Content Filtration and test that function, needless to say it worked.
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