block msn access after midnight ?

Have a Belkin pre-n wirless router, anybody suggest a way of blocking MSN
after midnight.
Must be thru the router as it supplys network and wireless laptop directly.

Had a look at the parental controls but thats a bit too severe.
cheers

Brian Day

ps - good bit of kit with one PCM card for under £100.00 at pcworld.

disable upnp after midnight?
without upnp, it wont work through NAT router.

"Brian Day" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:A0w2g.57704$(E-Mail Removed). uk...
> Have a Belkin pre-n wirless router, anybody suggest a way of blocking MSN after midnight.
> Must be thru the router as it supplys network and wireless laptop directly.
>
> Had a look at the parental controls but thats a bit too severe.
> cheers
>
> Brian Day
>
> ps - good bit of kit with one PCM card for under £100.00 at pcworld.
>
>
>

"Brian Day" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:A0w2g.57704$(E-Mail Removed). uk...
> Have a Belkin pre-n wirless router, anybody suggest a way of blocking MSN
> after midnight.

Blocking connections to port 1863 should do the trick, assuming you can
specify times.

Alex

In message <444aeddc$0$9247$(E-Mail Removed)>, nick
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>disable upnp after midnight?
>without upnp, it wont work through NAT router.
You sure 'bout that? Mine works just fine with uPnP disabled, it worked
fine on my last router which didn't even have uPnP.
--
Clint Sharp

nick wrote:
> disable upnp after midnight?
> without upnp, it wont work through NAT router.

That's incorrect.

I have uPnP disabled and have three computers on my network running MSN
Messenger... going through a NAT enabled router.

Alex Fraser wrote:
> "Brian Day" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:A0w2g.57704$(E-Mail Removed). uk...
>> Have a Belkin pre-n wirless router, anybody suggest a way of
>> blocking MSN after midnight.
>
> Blocking connections to port 1863 should do the trick, assuming you
> can specify times.

If Messenger cannot connect on port 1863, will it not then attempt to
connect over HTTP, port 80?

There's also a web messenger available... so they only way to limit it's use
after midnight is to block all internet traffic between 12am and 7am to that
IP.