Purhasing an Airport Extreme especially for controlling WiFi in my house.

I am thinking about purhasing an Airport Extreme especially for controlling WiFi in my house. To protect/limit internet use of my childeren.  Not just a single guest account but perphaps 2 or 3 with different time settings is this possible?  To my opinion it would be ideal to control it via the airport because there is no need for software and via an administration account I should be able to modify the settings

Do you perhaps know of any good parenting tool / app that I can install on the Ipad mini of my childeren.
As LaPastenague says, Apple expects you to set restrictions like this on the device itself. You will select a passcode when you establish the settings that you want. Only you will be able to change the settings that you have selected.....unless you provide the passcode to someone else.
On the iPad....
Tap Settings
Tap General
Tap Restrictions
See Allow, Allowed Content, Privacy, etc.
For more information about this, you need to post in the iPad support area. The link is here:
Using iPad
As far as allowed times, again as LaPastenague notes, Timed Access will allow you to do this for any device that connects using wireless.
For example, you could limit the use of the iPad to the hours of 3 PM to 8 PM Weekdays and 8 AM to 11 PM on Weekends.
Another device could be programmed to use the same "rules", or you could establish different "rules".
At the same time, you could specify "Unlimited" access for your own personal computer, etc.

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    +I have an AirPort Extreme base station. Can I somehow use it to create a sub-network (from the free wifi) to connect my other devices?+
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    Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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