E4200v2 - Parental controls bug

After seeing reviews and doing some research i went for the v2. If only i knew then what i know now. Range good. Speed good. Parental controls however were written by a 12 year old. For example you can turn the device off at 9pm and on again at 6am on weeknights but at weekends you have to turn it off at midnight. Excuse me what !! You can't disable them at weekends unless you disable weekdays as well. So what do linksys say about this. Well simply nothing. There are no firmware updates, no support, and their live chat is outsourced to some place that doesn't understand english. 

The Parental Controls feature allows you to restrict Internet access for some users within your network.  Specifically, you can block Internet access for up to five (5) users.
Selecting Specific times allows you to set a particular time range for blocking Internet access.  The range may vary, as indicated by the School nights and Weekends section.  The drop-down options for these sections have a start time range from 12nn-12mn and have an end time range from 12:30am-11:30am.  You cannot set any time range beyond these given values.
Here is the link which will help you in setting up Parental Controls using the Linksys wireless-N router's: http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?pid=93&login=1&vw=1&app=search&articleid=23411&userrole=Links...

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