EA6500 Parental Control or Access Restrictions question

I have been looking into this router, I woujld like to know if I can enable Parental controls or access restrictions to block a MAC or IP address; from 03:00 AM - 06:00 AM ?
Instead of Midnight to 6:00 am.
My E4200 works just fine, Just would like to know if the EA6500 Can do that ?
Thanks
Chris
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Yes, you can block a device on the network from accessing the internet from 3 AM to 6 AM.
Screen snippet I just took from my EA6500:
As for blocking it by IP address or MAC Address directly, no you can't, you have to select it from the device list, but from what I've seen, you have to do that on the E4200 as well, so that's nothing different.
There have been people expierencing issues with their device lists on the EA6500, but I've rarely had any since a few fimeware updates ago, and usually refreshing the page or clicking the in-page refresh button, fixes those when they do happen to occur. (In my case.)
And in response the the second post, although it's only apart of the wireless and unrelated to parental controls, the EA6500 does have MAC Filtering:

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