Part 1: Background introduction on this topic
Routers are networking devices that perform the job of forwarding data packets to appropriate computer networks. They are used to direct traffic on the internet. Since all network traffic passes through the router, it is an excellent way to monitor the activities of someone on the internet. Not only can they monitor which devices were used to access the network, but the web pages visited, and the time they made the connection or disconnected from the network. But most people don’t know how to use a router to monitor which websites are visited and in this guide, we will give a brief explanation on the topic.
Part 2: 4 Ways on How to Use Router to Monitor Which Web sites are Visited …show more content…
Router logs - Checking the logs of your Wi-Fi router is a method on the question how to use a router to monitor which website is visited. Most of the modern Wi-Fi routers that you can find on the market are equipped with the ability to monitor internet traffic. You can access those logs by going to your router’s admin panel in a web browser. On a Netgear router, go to Administration > Logs. In the logs, you can check the IP address of the device accessing the internet, website address, time of visiting the website as well as whether the connection request to the site was successful on not. 2. Identifying devices connected to the router - Routers can record IP or Mac address of the devices connected to the computer, but they can’t tell you the names of the devices. To identify the computers, you need to find out their IP address by opening command prompt and typing “ipconfig/all” and hit enter. It will display the IP address of your computer as well as Mac address which you can use to identify the computer which visited a particular