There are many reasons why an administrator may wish to restrict access to the Internet at different periods during the day. It may be necessary to conserve bandwidth for other purposes. Some administrators may simply wish to restrict the total time that users may spend on line. Vicomsoft's Timed Access Controls give you the flexibility you need to achieve this.

	Limitation of online time per day - Encourage user discipline. Prevent excessive online time.
	Time of day access restriction - Restrict Internet access at certain times of day. Maintain control of Internet in absence of supervisory personnel.
	Manual override of timed access controls on server host computer - Provides privileged administrator access.

Benefits
Encourage user discipline.
Prevent excessive online time.

Description
Timed Access Controls allow an administrator to set a single limit on the Internet connection time for each day of the week. Online time is accumulated for each computer (IP address) on a 24 hour basis. Once the maximum amount of online time for a particular day has been exceeded by an individual computer on the LAN, that computer will not be able to access the Internet until the next day.

Example
A 30 minute limit could be set in the Time Controls for every weekday. This allows computers on the LAN to each have 30 minutes online time to access the Internet every weekday. Once a computer has exceeded the 30 minute limit, it will be denied further access to the Internet until the next day. However, other computers on the LAN will be able to access the Internet until their 30 minutes have been used up.

Benefits
Restrict Internet access at certain times of day.
Maintain control of Internet in absence of supervisory personnel.

Description
Internet access may be granted or denied to the whole LAN for different periods of the week. Timed Access Controls allow an administrator to permit or deny access during each of 48 periods of one half hour per day of the week. Educators in particular will appreciate the ability to close the Internet connection to students during periods when other work is being done, or after hours.

Benefit
Provides privileged administrator access.

Description
The administrator can choose to allow the server computer unrestricted access to the Internet during periods when other LAN users are denied.