Phantom’s New iBoss Dictates Internet Usage

November 29, 2005 By Digital Trends Staff

Company's new Internet access control product is designed to manage usage of Internet time by members of the household or office.

Phantom Technologies, a maker of Internet security products, today announced the availability of their iBoss Internet activity control device. Priced at $119.95, it can be purchased through Phantom’s website or over the phone.

The iBoss, Phantom Technologies said, â€œworks through a Web browser where users can block categories of Web sites, schedule the use of online games, chats, download files and block any unwanted online activity or communication.â€ It can notify users when someone has powered it down, details logs of activities on the network including time and attempted violations and requires no software installation.

“Our uncomplicated hardware device covers an entire network without having to install any software at all,â€ said Phantom Technologies designer and CEO Paul Martini. â€œOur team of tech experts brainstormed and spent many hours designing iBoss to be a simple security device that makes Internet use safer and far more efficient. What’s more, it is available to all Internet users, not just large companies. It’s going to change the way predators and scammers can access the Internet and make homes and small businesses safer on the Internet.â€

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Matthew B. Buechler at 5:38pm 1st May 2006 Support got back to me first thing on Monday and everything's working great, very responsive. I'm impressed all around - highly recommended. The only issue I've run into is that my DNS server needs to remain unfiltered otherwise I get odd blocked pages even on machines that aren't filtered. If you're running with a router that's also your DNS server, this shouldn't be an issue at all.
Matthew B. Buechler at 6:11am 1st May 2006 Wow - very impressive. Just signed-up last week and got the device on Saturday, didn't expect it until the following week (very impressive service so far).

Anyway, hooked it up and it works exactly as advertised - I can't believe it quite honestly. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, but nothing so far. It's very fast, no noticable browsing delays that I can detect (and I'm pretty picky which is why I jumped on the bandwagon so soon - I hate software filtering solutions that slow my Internet connection down). The configuration was pretty simple and I can enable filtering or disable it per machine on my network by using it between the router and my switch. I had a minor issue early on that I emailed Tech support about and attempted to call (but couldn't get through - phone issues it appeared) so their support may need a bit of work, but it was a Saturday. We'll see if I can a call back today.

Great job guys! Let's get the support a little more responsive and fix the phone issues and you've got a solid winner!
Richard Kuhlenschmidt at 4:46am 15th March 2006 I have been trying to find out any information on this device. It sounds really interesting but I haven't heard any comments from real users.