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Blocking Websites

Not that I am aware of. However a router with DD-WRT can accomplish such.

I have a Linksys WRT54gs between the RG and the wireless computers. The wireless is turned off on the RG and the Linksys is doing the wireless handoff through a cat5e cable pluged into the RG. I set up Access Restriction on the Linksys but the URL just pass right through.

Are you using the linksys wan/internet port

No, using one of the four ports.

Edit: I switched the cat5e cable to to the WAN/Internet port and I loose internet. When I put the cat5e cable back to one of the four ports everythings works but still cant block web sites

You should use the linksys as a router for your computers instead of a just a access point, if you do that you'll need to change the ip address of the linksys to 192.168.5.1

The IP for the RG is 192.0.0.XX The Installer changed it. For what reason I don't know. He also changed the Password. I have the IP and password. He wrote it on the box the RG came in. The Linksys IP is 192.0.0.XX Any ideas on how or what to do? Thanks for all help.

Who set up the linksys

AT&T. When I had U-Verse installed the RG was placed in the lower floors in my home. To compensate for low wireless signal on the upper floors where the laptop computers are used, the installer used my old Linksys router on the upper floors and used a cat5 wire to connect it to the RG to improve wireless signal. He disabled wireless on the RG. We have one desktop computer connected to the RG by cable. The Linksys is handling the wireless but is connected to the RG by cable.

reply to fitsun
You would have to have every Internet device you own behind the Linksys in order for it to block access to websites. Not really sure about the stock firmware (I've always ran DD-WRT) but it can be done.

You would need to have the RG behind the WAN port of the Linksys, set up the Linksys to run in DHCP mode or static IP mode, using the credentials from the RG's Broadband page, with your hard wired computers on the 4 LAN ports and Wi-Fi devices operate the same as usual.

Couldn't you use the dd-wrt as main DNS server (just have it forward DNS requests to AT&T DNS servers) and have the DNS settings on all the computers on the network point to dd-wrt?

Seems a bit convoluted but that's a way of going about this.