Should I stay or should I go now - Smoothwall
Hi, Its getting to that time of year again when i get pee'd off with SW and start looking at other vendors. I've never looked in anger really as SW just works but the continuing annoyances with the...
View ArticleiPads with Smoothwall
I'm trying to get my iPads working with Smoothwall filtering. They will be working unauthenticated. I have the following configured: - /24 subnet specifically for iPads, mapped to SSID MOBILE on WLAN...
View ArticleSophos UTM costs?
I want to get a budgeting price on the Sophos UTM where can I get on form and what information would I need to supply and what is good about them?
View ArticleSite to Site VPN Query
So normally I would do a hardware VPN between 2 sites. Do so would allow any client to connect to services at the remote site (firewall permitting) I have one school where a hardware VPN is not...
View ArticleWhich web filter to replace Bloxx?
If you have Bloxx and you are replacing it which filter are you moving to and why?
View ArticleGoogle Chrome T&C Popup
Hi all, We have a little issue in which Google Chrome is trying to open a popup, and I've seen it before, it's the "You must accept these T&C's before using this product", but the popup doesn't...
View ArticleIceni Opendium
Been lurking around the forums looking for a filtering system for our primary school. I came across Iceni Opendium, seems to tick all the boxes but their doesn't seem to be much interest in it with...
View ArticleLeased lines
Morning, I've heard rumour of a contribution the school can receive of up to £2,500 towards the costs of getting a leased line installed. Does anyone know anything about it please? Thank you Stuart
View ArticleWeb Filtering, what to go for?
Hi all, We currently use SWGFL UBF, which is basic to say the least. We are now in the position to look into getting some proper filtering in place. Has anybody got any recommendations? At my last...
View ArticleSonicWall filtering
Hi all, We have a Dell Sonicwall which we are extremely happy with for filtering, however, we struggle to get decent reports out of it regarding users and websites they visit. Do anyone have any...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome on an RM Network
I'm being told that I MUST use Chrome in order for the TES website to work correctly. As RM use SSL interception how do you get around using Chrome (as it has it own certs). p.s. more upset that lazy...
View ArticleBirmingham Network Managers on Link2ICT
--------------------------- Link2ICT Essential Network Maintenance Notice Date: Tuesday 7 March 2017 Time: 9:30pm – 10:30pm Scope: Core Firewall Upgrade
View ArticleSmoothwall Support
Is anybody else fed up with listening to Smoothwalls hold music? "Your call is important to us so please listen to this repetitive rubbish for 30 minutes before we dump your call in our mailbox" Come...
View ArticleSchools Broadband or RM Broadband?
What are people's thoughts? If you have to choose who would you go for? Either way it would be on a 3 year contract so we need to make the right choice! Thanks, Dean.
View ArticleSmoothwall and Apple Cache Server
Afternoon All We've just installed a new Smoothwall S8 box and after some early teething troubles we seem to be getting into a stable state. One issue I'm having though is with our Apple Cache Server...
View ArticleThere is no Pokey, there is only Goo.
This site: https://pokey.thisisglobal.com/ yesterday had 128,929 hits ! Anyone know what it is???
View ArticleStrange issue of iPads not connecting to internet at random
Good evening all, Hope you're well. We're having a strange problem at School but only with Year 6 iPad Mini (which they take home and bring it to school everyday), some (at random) iPads would refuse...
View ArticleLgfl.atomwide down?
Anyone else lost phones and Internet.. cannot even call support on my mobile?
View ArticlePersonal Pages & Blogs category - Block or Unblock?
We're finding that the majority of our Unblock requested from Students these days are for resources within Blogs on WordPress, Blogger and others. In the past, we've always kept the "Personal Pages...
View ArticleSecurus Software Alternatives
Hi all, I use Securus in one of the schools I look after and its seems to work ok. I was wondering if there are any other e-safety monitoring solutions out there and your experience of using them....
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