Phobos.apple.com bandwidth control
Morning everyone, We are having real issues with Apple update service in particular iTunes as Phobos.apple.com and other Apple update services are hogging our bandwidth, 19.5Mbps non stop is being used...
View ArticleLight Speed / Talk Straight required school to change IP address scheme ??
Hi All - Can anyone help with the following problem or offer an explanation as to why the following is required. Our School have just signed a new 3 year agreement with Talk Straight, and let me first...
View ArticleWebsites not displaying correctly
I wonder if anyone else has had this problem? Since the Summer holidays, we have been having problems in a couple of Schools with a number of commonly used websites, where content is not displaying...
View ArticleUser internet history logger
Hi All I'm looking for some easy and possibly cheap solution, to have internet access history of our pupils. We used to have something called RmSmartcache2 but as we change to multiple vlans it does...
View ArticleSmoothwall, VLANS and Hyper-V
Hi All Anybody else using smoothwall on hyper-v with VLANS willing to let us know how you are setup. We were experiencing weird issues with dropped packets manifesting itself as page load problems...
View ArticleAnyone using Internet Kit for website hosting? Has your site gone down?
A primary school I provide some support for uses Internet Kit for their website. http://www.internetkit.co.uk It a very basic web design and hosting service. It seems to have suddenly stopped working...
View ArticleCan someone check my proxy PAC file quickly please?
Hi all, would someone in the know mind just going over my very simple Proxy PAC file please to make sure I'm doing this correctly before deployment? Basically our network is 10.130.113.0, and I want it...
View ArticleDrayTek Vigor 2925 & Lightspeed Rocket
Hello everyone, Today I tested the our new leased line via our DrayTek and I ran into a strange issue. I have allowed all the ports on the DrayTek that Lightspeed request but clients lost their...
View ArticleInternet filter not working properly on certain web browsers...
Hi folks, recently we asked our internet provider to password protect youtube - so when trying to open youtube on any browser, it should come up with a warning, allow the user to click on `proceed' and...
View ArticleAutodesk Flow Design
Hello everyone, I am experiencing an issue with getting Autodesk's Flow Design program to run through our smoothwall box. The original error message I was receiving when attempting to open was...
View ArticleNew youtube video filtering...anybody managed to get it work?
Hi all, We are a Google apps for edu site and have blocked youtube for some time now..... last month Google announced that it was no longer supporting youtube for education, and if we wanted to filter...
View ArticleFiltering system flagging up Malware
Hi My filtering is flagging up a domain name as malware but i cant browse to to the site or find any information as to if the site is legit? The filtering is displaying traffic from multiple users...
View ArticleFortiGate filtering
I'm (still) looking into TMG replacement options. The latest thing I'm looking at are the FortiGate 100D and 200D I'm just wondering what people's opinions of it are (especially of those people who are...
View ArticleWirespeed
I've heard some interesting comments (from an engineer from an IT company (who isn't on EduGeek as far as I know), so it may just have been sales speak to big up their preferred product?) about the...
View ArticleShared iPads/Tablets and web logging
I am working through a number of projects at the moment and one question that has come up is this - how are those of you who have shared use iPads (or Android etc...) providing usable logs for web...
View ArticleBoosty
This (http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2015/10/lincolnshire-home-broadband-speeds-to-be-boosted-by-exclusive-technology/) has just come up in local news. I have been watching the local broadband news for...
View ArticleWeb Filtering - Censornet / Capital Bytes
Just wondered if anyone within Lincolnshire use capital bytes for their web and email filtering, and how do you find it especially with BYOD? I've found out that our current provider are using an older...
View ArticleWhat causes this issue? Forbidden 403
Attachment 32717 (http://www.edugeek.net/attachments/forums/internet-related-filtering-firewall/32717-what-causes-issue-forbidden-403-capture.png) OH work is getting this issue when connecting to their...
View ArticleStrange Restricted Access Page
Hi, I'm really sorry if this is the wrong place for this question. I'm having some issues with some sites being blocked for teachers at my school district. We use Lightspeed and haven't had major...
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