Adverts in Google Chrome
Hi all, How are you all managing adverts in Google Chrome? Having an influx of resources having cheeky underwear adverts on and its becoming a bit of a problem, little hesitant to deploy Adblocker...
View ArticleNon work related - ASUS cable router question
Morning all, Quick home related question. Does anyone have an Asus router at home? I understand that these devices come up quite often in recommendations for having great built in family filtering, but...
View ArticleBusiness 4G Internet Connections
Hi there, I am having a spot of bother. I have moved into a new build house and despite being very close to a major airport and several large towns, all with high speed internet. There is nothing here....
View ArticleOutlook iOS app behind NetSweeper/Schools Broadband
Has anyone got the Microsoft Outlook iOS app working behind Schools Broadband's new Netsweeper filter? I've opened a support ticket but got a spare afternoon now so thought I would see if it is...
View ArticleLive Enviroment showcase
Hi All, We're going through internet renewal and as part of that we are also changing our filtering. We have two choices that I want to look at Smoothwall and Cisco Umbrella. Is there anyone out there...
View Articleunblocking certain youtube channels
Hi All, We've been asked if we can look into allowing only certain youtube channels and videos to be unblocked yet block everything else from the site. I've had a look and this only seems possible...
View Article802.1x and BYOD
We are looking at setting up a BYOD network. We have successfully setup the SSID to authenticate users via the RADIUS server. However, also need our proxy/filter to know who the user is (for filtering...
View ArticleOnsite web filtering replacement
Hi After working out yesterday that my email system was down. Turns out the schools lightspeed bottle rocket has died. Does anyone got any suggestions for a affordable alternative? Regards Jon
View ArticleBlock students using Chrome as a local browser to access C:
I have just rolled out Google Chrome which i've noticed allows the student to work it as a file explorer for access to C Drive. Essentially you can get to anywhere on the 'C Drive' (or the computer) by...
View ArticleEXa and Unifi
Is anyone on a EXA connection with a Unifi Gateway Pro? If so did you remove their router and replaced with the gateway or have you figured out a workaround?
View ArticleLightspeed and Guest Wifi VLAN
I've taken over a network which is using Lightspeed for their filtering. I have set up a Guest WIFI VLAN so the client gets an IP from the DHCP server and can ping through to the core switch which has...
View ArticleMastodon
No, not the metal band! There seems to be a new decentralised social network coming up called Mastodon. People set up their own servers with their own domain names to post stuff and the various...
View ArticleSchools with less than Superfast (25MB download speeds). DfE DCMS pilot.
DfE and DCMS estimate that only 1200 schools in the UK are below Superfast speeds (25MB download) and are running a pilot to connect 100 schools with 1GB "so that the results can help build the...
View ArticleBYOD and Smoothwall certificate
We have a BYOD wireless network. This is setup through Smoothwall by using a different VLAN and 192.168 IP range and transparent proxy so students can use their active directory username and password....
View ArticleYoutube/Netsweeper filtering issues
Hi Anyone else having issues getting Youtube to load correctly? We can get to the URL in school but all the video thumbnails/icons are greyed out and cannot be clicked on. I've logged with Schools...
View ArticleSmoothwall wildcard whitelist for google G Suite
Had an issue with google classroom where as students could not download resources from the teacher narrowed it down to https://client6.google.com being blocked by smoothwall once i whitelisted it, it...
View ArticleGoogle websites not loading in Chrome
We have a frustrating/confusing issue with Chrome not loading (or taking an age to load) Google domain sites, including Gmail, Google Drive etc. Loading other websites on Chrome is fine. This does not...
View ArticleWhat do I need to consider to move from County provided broadband?
Afternoon All, We have been having ongoing issues with our county supplied broadband and my BM has asked me to write a proposal for moving to a business broadband service provided by the likes of...
View ArticleDomain Hosting
Hi all, Does anyone have any experience in moving a school domain name (schoolname.leics.sch.uk) away from an ISP to a domain name host? We are moving a few away from ISP's to a central ISP and am...
View ArticleOptions on teamviewer
I use the teamviewer business licence for remote access to school servers, but now only look after two, so the cost is looking quite high going forward. What alternatives do people use / recommend?
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