Having a family at home with two high-school teens, and not much looking forward to the performance slowdowns and the time to review monitoring software solutions (but which I may end up doing anyway), I took a shot last week at setting up our home wireless router to use OpenDNS. So far, the results are looking good. Web use seems slightly faster then before, and the content-blocking functionality seems to work very well, with a seemingly very broad awareness of the domains that fit into each of its 54 or so blockable categories.

I did have a couple of periods so far where the blocking behavior seemed disengaged (and we could view anything unrestricted); not sure why. I’m keeping an eye on that, and hoping that it’s just an issue with coordinating our DSL’s dynamic IPs (which should then go away once I have the OpenDNS’s dynamic IP client software running on all computers in the house).