We at Westelcom Internet are proud to offer the premier Internet filtering service to our subscribers.

Westelcom's Parental Web Lock blocks access to inappropriate materials on the Internet for families, schools, libraries, and businesses. This includes Web sites containing pornography, bomb-making, hate crime, violence and any other objectionable material available on the web today.

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Westelcom's Parental Web Lock   simply adds on to your existing service. There is no hardware to buy.  Click on the 'Sign Up Now' Link below and once the form has been completed, you will be instructed further.  The process is quick and easy.  Follow the links below to learn more about our Web Filtering Service.

What is Web filtering?

The Internet has a proliferation of Web sites that promote in graphic detail subjects that most feel are inappropriate for the home, educational and corporate environments. These subjects include pornography, drug use, criminal activity, violence, and hate-oriented material. Open chat areas are also a frequent source of inappropriate and even dangerous discussion that can threaten the safety of children and be unproductive for employees. Web filtering is a way of blocking access to these types of Web sites. Westelcom's Parental Web Lock is flexible and allows parents, educators, and employers to override the system, when necessary, by using a separate password.

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What type of filtering do we offer?

One approach is client-based software products which, when loaded onto an individual computer, check specific Web site requests against a database of Web sites deemed inappropriate and disallow the retrieval of the content. There are several drawbacks to client-based products. First, the users must load software onto the individual computer. It is immediately out of date because new objectionable sites appear on the Internet daily. Updates are usually available, but continually updating is troublesome to the user. They are often easy to bypass because they are loaded on the same computer they're protecting.

The approach we chose to use is server-based filtering which resides at the network level, so that each computer does not have to have software loaded. In our case, we have the filtering server hosted at our network and then we allow our subscriber access to it. This is the most practical approach, user automatically receive the most updated list of blocked sites daily.

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How does Parental Web Lock help families?

Perhaps in your household, the kids just jump on the Internet without saying anything. If you’re like most parents, this makes you a little uneasy because objectionable material on the Internet is so prolific now it is difficult to avoid. Kids are curious—and they’re going to find their way to sites you would rather they avoid.

Westelcom's Web filtering can give you the peace of mind you want as the parent of a Web-surfing youngster. Any sites that promote pornography, drug use, violence, and hate crimes are blocked. It also blocks open chat areas, where objectionable and even dangerous discussions can take place.

As a parent, you can override blocking at any time. The best thing about it, though, is that you can allow your child to freely explore the Internet without worrying about the safety of their experience. That’s how it should be.

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How does Parental Web Lock help schools and libraries?

Our Web Filtering was designed specifically for the K-12 environment.  It is a turnkey Internet filtering service that’s on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Objectionable sites are added to the list of blocked Web pages every day, currently totaling in the hundreds of thousands, the largest filtered database available today.

Libraries can activate our Web Filtering  on selected computers in their children’s sections without affecting Internet use in other areas of the library.

Since thousands of sites are reviewed every day, your database of filtered sites is automatically updated nightly. This frees your technology coordinators from the enormous task of creating local files of blocked sites or downloading incomplete lists from various sources. We do it all for you.

Content Filtering also reduces congestion on school networks by an average of 50% and speeds up Internet access. When you access Internet documents, they are automatically stored in the cache, so that subsequent access of those sites is much faster. Each time sites are accessed, web lock sniffs out the changes, retrieves the most recent version of the site, and updates the cache as needed.

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How does Web Filtering help businesses?

Web filtering also has its place in businesses. Employers have found that as office workers have access to the Internet, productivity decreases because the temptation to spend time visiting non-productive Web sites on company time is too great to resist. Many employers now have Acceptable Use Policies (AUP) for the Internet written into their employee manuals, but this does not mean they get a high degree of compliance. As a result, companies are now starting to use Internet filtering methods, to block inappropriate sites, which encourages employees to stick to their job while on company time.

With Parental Web Lock service, compliance is automatic. You can decide how employees will use the Internet when they’re on your time--without having to police the issue. Best of all, you don’t have any hardware to buy, or software to install, or updates to worry about. We do everything for you at the server level, and we update the list of filtered sites automatically every day.

A  proxy server can also be installed into your network. This gives you full flexibility to customize the list of blocked sites as you wish. Also, because we use caching, your network will run faster and more efficiently. This further adds to your productivity and enables you to postpone or even eliminate the need to invest further in expensive hardware-based technology to expand your bandwidth.

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How do I subscribe to Parental Web Lock?  

Web Filtering with  Westelcom Internet Costs an additional $3.95 dollars per month.  To Subscribe and Setup the Parental Web Lock feature, click the "Sign-up Now" button below. (For even more savings and protection, bundle it with Spam Guard and Virus Patrol for only $4.95 a month, or for the ultimate in web protection, get all three for only $5.95 a month!)

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