made scheduling recordings easy. After a few of days of scheduling recordings, the intelligent recording function really began to kick in. Before long, I looked at my scheduled recordings and found that 147 programs had been automatically cued up to record...

basis. The VBR's Scheduling Features are the most flexible that I've found in recent routers. For each Access Control rule, you can apply one of 10 schedules that you set up, or have the rule always in force. Figure 6: Rule Schedule (click on the image for...

provides time schedulable control of your LAN users' Internet access, your choices are limited to Block All Outgoing, Block All Incoming, or Block Both. There's no ability to limit the blocking to specific services (ports), and the scheduling doesn't apply...

as shown in Figure 7, but there is only one schedule, which can be applied on a rule by rule basis. Figure 7: Rule Schedule (click on the image for a full-sized view) You can also control the logging of each rule with selections of Never and Match, as well...

I launched Windows Messenger on a LAN-side machine, I couldn't get anything to appear in the table. To control the services (ports) that LAN users can access, the 824 provides a Block Services function. Figure 5 shows you can schedule when services are blocked...