Wordpress login page through Smoothwall
Good Afternoon I have an annoying issue where are smoothwall is setup to block blogs under "core block rule" which blocks top level Wordpress.com (no problem) and then have an overriding webfiltering...
View ArticleLet's Encrypt SSL certificates
Does anyone know anything about Let's Encrypt? They are a free provider of SSL certificates, and the SSL certificate on our main website is provided by them. It is automatically renewing itself, so I'm...
View ArticleMajor Sophos XG vulnerability
Morning all, I received the link below this morning via email. I highly suggest anyone with a Sophos XG firewall follows Sophos's advice. ...
View ArticleSecurly - New Forum Sponsors
Hi There EduGeeks! Securly are thrilled to be the new sponsor of the Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall forum. A heads up on who we are for those who dont know: Securly are a pure cloud, student...
View ArticleHome Broad Laptops running at different speeds on two different laptops.
Hi OK so the story. Had a user query that they were getting poor performance on work laptop as regards Internet connection compared to home laptop is a user with pretty good technical knowledge, anyhow...
View Articlegetting website approved in China
Hi, boarding school here with quite a few pupils based in China. We host onsite as web server that handles student information that is also available externally. I am told that our Chinese pupils are...
View ArticleIP Cameras That Stream Directly to YouTube?
Hi folks, Is anyone aware of IP camera makes/models that stream directly to YouTube? My Google-fu is failing. Thanks
View ArticlePort forward and smoothwall
Hello all We have a new PBX phone system and the phone company would like to remote manage the box. At the moment with the help of smoothwall; everything should be working A-OK. But alas not. The phone...
View ArticleFiltering solution for BYOD
Hi all, I am looking for an internet filtering solution for our 6th form BYOD network, ideally, it would be fully transparent (no proxy settings, ports certificates, etc.)so that I don't have to do...
View ArticleEdge favourites
So after a few days of turning policies off and on I've found some settings that were messing up the default programs assigning. So that's sorted. Trying to work out favourites now. I've set the...
View ArticleGoogle Meet bandwidth consumption
Hi all We're looking at the feasibility of delivering lots of lessons using Google Meet and I've been asked to give a ballpark figure for how many simultaneous lessons the school's Internet connection...
View ArticleInstall Zoom for all users?
I've just had to rush to setup Zoom on a PC for a member of staff who is in. They've ended up using it via the browser (Chrome) as I can't see how to allow non-admins the ability to install. I've...
View ArticleNetsweeper filtering applying and blocking students at home
Hi I've had a couple of students who are working from home on a personal Chromebook contact me to say that they're being blocked by Netsweeper on every page they've tried to browse. They're using a...
View Articledat files in email
Afternoon all, We are seeing an unusual amount of non-spam email coming in with randomly numbered dat attachments, so not winmail.dat, eg 850000.dat or the like. Anyone seen this before? This is after...
View ArticleEdu24 - Anyone familiar with them?
We are due to renew our 1Gbps fibre connection after five years with Virgin paying £18,000 per year. I expect prices has come down a bit, but I've had a letter from a company called Edu24 suggesting...
View ArticleExpired Add Trust CA Root
Has anyone heard anything about the root Certificate from Add Trust expiring? Several of the websites we access are coming up as blocked by the firewall. On further checking it was found the Add trust...
View Articlethenational.academy Vimeo Videos
Hi All, It seems the https://www.thenational.academy/ website hosts it's videos on the Vimeo service which we have blocked. We'd like to avoid unblocking Vimeo as the content isn't always appropriate...
View ArticleYoutube - force restricted mode on iPads
I have followed these instructions Setting up and Enforcing YouTube Restrictions with Windows DNS (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x83givfFyDPpcdwosgdLZHLIafJ0djAxDNR5lptpU2Y/edit#) to force...
View ArticleRouter Connection Redundancy
Looking for some suggestions if possible: Our core switch is built up of 4 x switches in a ring stack topology, forming as 1 switch. Our router is connected from the LAN port into switch 1 port. All...
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