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What WOMBATS Shield is

A small appliance, designed and engineered in Australia, that plugs into the home modem and filters ads, trackers, adult content, phishing and malware for every device on the network — the laptop, the console, the tablet, the visitor's phone. Parents can pause the internet, put it on a schedule and enforce SafeSearch.

It runs on the household's own network rather than in a company's cloud. There is no account to create, no app subscription, and no monthly fee. Three things the company will not move on, and which are the reason the product exists:

• Buy once. No subscriptions.
• Nothing about your home leaves your home. The Shield resolves web addresses itself rather than handing the household's browsing to a DNS company. The internet provider can still see the destinations, as it always could.
• If we disappear, your Shield keeps working. No activation server, no cloud login. Filter lists update over the internet; control of the device does not depend on us existing.

The range

All prices AUD. GST included for delivery in Australia; no Australian GST on export orders. The figures below are the founding price — what the first 20 numbered units are sold at today. They have never been sold at the standard price, so please don't present this as a discount; it isn't one.

The standard price applies from unit 21, once the founding batch is gone. The current count of remaining founding units is on the pricing page.

Product photography

Free to use in coverage of WOMBATS Shield. 1448 × 1086 PNG on white. Right-click and save, or open in a new tab for the full-size file.

On the images: these are photographs of real production devices. The only editing is background replacement, verified pixel-identical on the device itself. We don't publish renders.

Boilerplate

Paste as-is.

WOMBATS Shield is a home network appliance, designed and engineered in Australia, that filters ads, trackers, adult content, phishing and malware for every device in a household, and gives parents pause, scheduling and SafeSearch controls. It runs on the home's own network rather than in a cloud: there is no account, no subscription and no monthly fee. Founding prices for the three models start at $424. WOMBATS Shield is a registered business name of Ausbotics Pty Ltd, based in North Sydney, NSW.

Founder

Interviews, longer background and additional photography on request: hello@wombatss.com.

What it does not do

Included because it will save you a fact-check, and because we would rather you had it from us.

• It does not read messages. Shield does not stop grooming or bullying inside a chat app, and we will never claim it does.
• It is not a total block on determined circumvention. Nothing at the network layer is, and any vendor telling you otherwise is selling you something.
• Follow-Me Filtering (Shield Vault) extends the home rules to a child's phone by connecting it back to the family's own Shield. The phone's owner can switch that connection off; the Shield shows when each phone last connected. That trade is deliberate — a lock a teenager can't turn off is one they'll route around. If the home internet is down, a phone set to always-protected has no internet until it reconnects. The same connection also carries Back to Shield: the owner's phone or laptop reaching the Shield's dashboard and the family's files from away, at the home internet's upload speed.
• Per-device filtering, per-device SafeSearch and per-device app blocking are Shield Edge and Shield Vault features. On Shield Core those controls apply to the whole network at once. Pausing a device and setting its internet schedule work on every model.
• Setup asks for the modem's admin login — the one on the modem's sticker. It is usually a couple of minutes, but it is not nothing.
• A technically confident buyer can build the DNS filtering layer themselves for around $100. Shield is the version that sets up the protection for you, stays maintained, and comes with a person to message.

Fast facts

Product

Home network appliance — filtering, parental controls, and on higher models private storage, media and travel Wi-Fi

Models

Shield Core, Shield Edge, Shield Vault

Price

From $424 AUD, inc GST (founding price)

Origin

Designed and engineered in Australia

Trial

30-day home trial for households in Australia and New Zealand, prepaid return label, full refund

Warranty

12-month hardware warranty, in addition to Australian Consumer Law guarantees

Security updates

Security updates until at least 31 December 2029, for every Shield's hardware and the software it ships with. The date is reviewed every year and is never brought forward.

Dispatch

Free in Australia and New Zealand during the founding batch; $89 Express courier elsewhere ($129 to the Middle East).

Encryption

Every Shield ships with its filesystems encrypted, with a per-device key burned into the board's own one-time-programmable silicon. There is no universal fleet key. The Vault's internal SSD is encrypted too — switched on when the owner first sets up the drive.

Company

Ausbotics Pty Ltd, trading as WOMBATS Shield · ABN 24 655 781 150

Registered

2 December 2021 (ASIC)

Office

Suite 902, 50 Berry Street, North Sydney NSW 2060

Website

wombatss.com

Media contact

hello@wombatss.com