Google Images Problem
Hi everyone, I have an odd problem that I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction towards. Whenever a student does a search in google images it shows about the first 15-20 thumbnails then...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome misbehaving, not printing or allow attachments to emails etc
Dear all, Has anyone else been having issues with Google Chrome recently? We are currently experiencing problems with printing from chrome, adding attachments to gmail in chrome, and downloading (click...
View ArticleWebsites not loading
I have a site on a Windows 2008 domain. Over the last couple of days some websites will not load. They simply sit with the loading icon spinning in the tab. If you google search for the site it...
View ArticleYouTube Education
Hiya, I'm going round and round in circles with this and getting nowhere. I'd like to make our YouTube account findable for the kids who are forced to see the Education YouTube. How do I do this...
View ArticleWindows 10 updates will not download + will not activate + USB tool will not...
Bit of an odd one. Installed Windows 10, connected to network + proxy and went to windows update on the OS where it said some updates are waiting to download, I hit download but nothing happened, it...
View ArticleVirgin upping their broadband speed
I've just had an email from Virgin media entitled 'We're giving you a broadband speed upgrade this autumn' which links here: Virgin Media - Speed upgrade...
View ArticleBypass for local addresses not bypassing
Hi all, I've relatively recently started at a new school and we have a strange problem here. Our IP range is x.x.2.x to x.x.3.x with a subnet mask of 255.255.254.0. I have a bunch of devices on the...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Extensions and Smoothwall
Hi guys Seems Smoothwall is filtering something for students what is not letting us roll out this extension...
View ArticleWatchguard
Anyone using Watchguard firewalls? We have a pair of XTM1050 devices in a high availability cluster, and we're having trouble getting support from any company with regards to firmware updates. One has...
View ArticleSocial Media Policy / Guidelines
Hello Does anyone have any social media policies or guidelines that they would be willing to share? Thanks
View ArticleSmoothwall Bandwidth Module
Does anyone use this or any other traffic shaping to help manage their broadband pipe? If so, what allowances do you set for your users?
View ArticleBlogspot
To block or unblock for staff and students? More and more requests to unblock content of BlogSpot, in the past we have had it blocked, what is your opinions?
View ArticleSmoothwall doing my head in (DNS/Routing Issues)
Afternoon Guys, Someone explain this to me as I can't understand if I'm being dumb or I am understanding this correct and Smoothwall are just being annoying.... A client trying to access our own...
View ArticleSite to Site VPN with Smothwall UTM 1000 and Smoothwall Express
Hi, We have a main site with Smoothwall UTM 1000 as the internet gateway. Miles away we have an office with 6-8 computers behind BT ADSL broadband. I would like to link this office to the main site via...
View ArticleSmoothwall cost
Just posting this here to see anyone else has had a problem with this. We're an all-age special, but the quote for Smoothwall with a server came in at over £8000! Now my finance team balked at this,...
View ArticleUTM / filter options with a twist.
It's coming up to filter / utm renewal time - currently with Smoothwall. I'm looking at alternatives but they all involve a costly network upgrade as our network is only layer 2 with no core switch. We...
View ArticleAnyone got a squid proxy to work with a parent proxy?
Hi, Looking to setup a internal proxy server for AV scanning and website blocking. All of our internet has to go out through the LEA's proxy on port 8080. Their proxy is Sophos. Has anyone got a free...
View ArticleIPv6 adoption
I've been watching ARIN's IPv4 inventory dwindling over the past few weeks... https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_countdown.html ARIN services North America and RIPE NCC (which services Europe)...
View ArticleVLAN - Transparent proxy - portal
Hi, we are about to have a VLAN via transparent proxy set up alongside our existing wifi network for visitors and eventually staff/children BYOC. Does anyone know of a way to make the user go through a...
View ArticleApple Caching Server Authentication Problems with SWGFL
Our Mac mini that is set up as a caching server is failing to set up an SSL connection through our SWGFL internet connection. The answer from SWGFL is an ever helpful "Nah can't be done mate". It has...
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