Now TV Broadband Buddy

Controls & Settings guide

NOW TV’s Broadband Buddy allows you to control what websites your family can access. It also helps protect you from websites that try to collect your private information without your knowledge, and sites that might harm your computer or other devices. See our step-by-step guide to get set up.

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What do I need?

Broadband Buddy is available to all NOW Broadband and NOW TV Combo customers at no extra cost. It's not available with any other broadband providers, and you won’t be protected by Broadband Buddy if you change to another provider.

Restrictions you can apply

icon Anonymizers
icon Dating
icon Drugs & Criminal Skills
icon File Sharing & Hacking
icon Inappropriate content
icon Online games
icon Phishing & Malware Infected Sites
icon Pornography & Adult
icon Social networking
icon Suicide & Self-harm
icon Weapons & Violence, Gore & Hate

Step by Step instructions

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To get started, simply choose an age rating to suit the people who’ll be using broadband in your home. This automatically creates the appropriate internet security settings for all of your tablet/mobile phone and other devices.

Go to nowtv.com, under ‘My details & settings’, click ‘Settings & PINs’.

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Here you can see the control settings to turn on a Parental PIN and/or turn on Broadband Buddy.

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Broadband Buddy

Here you can choose the age rating for your family.

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Broadband Buddy

Here you can set a browsing time, block or allow websites or turn of Broadband Buddy.

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