EMBC Schools

[ChrisH]

Were not on 11 meg, we get about 2 at best from our dish

[GrumbleDook]

Luxury ... when I wert lad we had nothin' but 2 old tin cans a length of string.

 

Then we grew up and sold it to C&W and became dotcom millionaires!

 

(sorry ... couldn't resist!)

[Dos_Box]

@Ashok. Our pricing comes directly from the schools budget, and not one part of our setup is profit making. Our service providers (both support and network) are either local govt or university based .

 

@ChrisH. Are you sure? we are having problems wth our firewall at the moment which may account for perceived speed problems.

[Ric_]

ChrisH is in a lovely hilly area

 

Ours works nice and fast

[ChrisH]

Yes we are next to pendle hill on a 22 meg wireless link which is bounced of all and sundry d/l speeds are at the 2 meg level mostly with the odd freakish higher d/l rate. Tis very slow.

[Dos_Box]

Still, it's a beutiful part of the country and you have a nice view whilst waiting for pages to load.

 

For those of you in the inner cities, here is the view he has to suffer.

 

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/lg/NwPendleSheepVw4223.jpg

 

And he complains!!

[ChrisH]

Yes but to see that view I have to look out of the window stood on a chair to look over the PE block

[adamyoung]

Anyone having filtering problems on EMBC at the min?

 

Originally they said it was just our site and it had never happened before, then they said it was a few sites - i dont think they're quite sure!!!

 

They keep blocking Search Engines as part of the default block settings, then it stops for a few hours or even days and then the problem reoccurs.

 

The support don't return calls, dont update you and today they said they cant give and update until after 1pm because they cant ring NetSweeper as they're in Canada, and then they might not be able to give us a call back because they might be too busy - nice to feel like a valued customer!

[pete]

Anyone having filtering problems on EMBC at the min?

 

Originally they said it was just our site and it had never happened before, then they said it was a few sites - i dont think they're quite sure!!!

 

They keep blocking Search Engines as part of the default block settings, then it stops for a few hours or even days and then the problem reoccurs.

 

The support don't return calls, dont update you and today they said they cant give and update until after 1pm because they cant ring NetSweeper as they're in Canada, and then they might not be able to give us a call back because they might be too busy - nice to feel like a valued customer!

 

Ask to use another proxy server if they keep stuffing that one up. There are multiple ones within Netlinc with different levels of blocking. Some are incredibly "loose".

[petectid]

Yes we are next to pendle hill on a 22 meg wireless link which is bounced of all and sundry d/l speeds are at the 2 meg level mostly with the odd freakish higher d/l rate. Tis very slow.

 

Not far away from you Chris and our Broadband is wireless, I wouldn’t complain to much if we got 2Mb but on fast days we get closer to 1.5 and this has also been hived out to two local primary schools who connect to our internet feed via DSL links.

 

Our RBC should be supplying 8Mb according to their website they fulfil these government requirements?