Removing upstream proxy
Hi all I'm have trouble getting Connect for Chromebooks to work, which is a problem as that's one of the reasons we bought Smoothwall. Long story short, the SWGfL engineers have asked me to remove the...
View ArticleEAD
Anyone using a BT EAD product? We're moving our connection over to this next summer and are awaiting a site survey - oddly it's Virgin Media doing the install although it's definitely a BT EAD...
View ArticleVirgin Business Internet down in Birmingham - You too?
Hi all, Our Virgin leased line is down this morning. Anyone else got this ? We're North Birmingham. Their helpdesk say they don't know the fault yet and have no ETA for a fix !!!!!!!!
View ArticlePrimary School ISP
We are a two form entry primary school. We currently have 100mb leased line with virgin and we utilize only 6% of it. I have had various quotes from various suppliers mentioned on this board which have...
View ArticleCreating an accessible website
Nice article here https://opensource.com/life/16/10/why-web-accessibility It mentions an accessibility tester WAVE Web Accessibility Tool (http://wave.webaim.org/) We spent a fast sum of money on...
View ArticleCritique our internet / web filtering tender spec
I'm inviting you guys to critique the draft specification for the tender of our internet service. Currently we're with the LA but I think we can get better value for money going to the market. This is...
View ArticleSchool Broadband Service Providers - Essex
Looking for recommendations for alternative School broadband service providers for an Essex MAT.
View ArticleYoutube student access
Currently, we block all youtube access for students but there are more and more calls for them to have access to it especially our music department. I was wondering what you guys do with regards to...
View ArticleHow to get youtube user OR channe all video URL on PowerShell ???
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/internet-related-filtering-firewall/150672-how-get-youtube-playlist-url.html https://www.youtube.com/user/crnaviofficial/videos I NEED A PowerShell script
View ArticleNeed an online safety report - technical side
Hi, The usual box ticking going on in anticipation of ofsted, so my list of work has been interrupted by a request for a report on online safety, what we use and how it keeps kids safe etc. Does anyone...
View ArticleEmail Filtering Dictionaries
We've recently put in a new email filter and we plan to start issuing students with email addresses pretty soon. Censornet have provided us with some dictionaries and regular expressions to help detect...
View ArticleOut of Office reply Gmail
Hi all, I have a user than is going on Maternity Leave in a couple of weeks that wants me to put an Out of Office reply on her email (Gmail). The problem being that she is a member of SLT so is in just...
View ArticleFirewall/Gateway Routing Mess (BYOD)
Morning All, Finally getting some time to try to sort out the current setup of the routing/gateways here since I've started not had a proper dig in it and can't for the life of me work out if I'm...
View ArticleBT Email through client
Hi all, We have a someone working with the school in a advisory capacity. She gets her BT emails through outlook which are setup with the btinternet server settings. Her emails keep erroring out, I...
View ArticleInternet for Students at Home
Hey all, do any of your schools provide students with some sort of internet access at home, ie, a wifi hotspot or a chromebook with a sim card? If so, how does your system work? Who pays for it? What...
View ArticleGMail delayed delivery
Many are complaining about slow receipt of incoming mail from a GMail account, the delay can be as long as one day. We use smoothwall for spam filtering the entries in 'SMTP RBL checks' are:...
View ArticleUnauthenticated Proxy - What solutions are people using ?
Hello all, I am in the middle of a mail migration to Office365 for the company I am working for, phase1 has gone fine so far with only minor account related issues - I got everyones mailboxes over to...
View ArticleMathswatch video's
Has any one else found a way round accessing Mathswatch video's using Lighspeed filtering? The video's for this site are hosted on Vimeo and there does not seem a safe way of providing access to this...
View ArticlePort 23 Hits.
Have You Checked Your Firewall Logs Lately ?. I am seeing in my Home Hardware Firewall (Smoothwall SWE3.1) hundreds/ thousands of hits on Port 23(TELNET) some on 2323 and 22 I have page after page of...
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