LGFL blocking Edugeek

[Netware]

As the subject says above. anyone else has this happened to? funny how they dont block game sites and other stupid things the LGFL are crap i say no more..........will have to get on the phone in the morning and explain to them or send them a email.... *Rant Over*

[mitcheln]

LGfL URL filtering is generally delegated to schools. Try to contact your LA contact who should be able to provide you, if you are representing one or more schools, with a username and password for the Netsweeper system that categorises Edugeek, because of the forum, as 'web-based' chat.

[georgebush]

Can you not get them to give you some unfiltered IPs? I know with Cleo that if you phone them they'll set you up static IPs that get round almost all of the bans letting you on youtube, facebook etc. Pretty handy for your workstation, so many sites usefull to me but none of the other staff get blocked otherwise.

[mitcheln]

Can you not get them to give you some unfiltered IPs?

I'm pretty sure they don't offer this, but Netsweeper is fairly versatile and you can (if I've read the manual correctly) ask Synetrix to create a new group - a range of IPs - which you can then apply separate filtering policies to.

[Netware]

@mitcheln thanks, yes i do have a user name and password for the Netsweeper system that categorises the websites i guess i will have to have a closer look . i use netsweeper a lot as you can add more than one site at a time, as we are using smartcache2 for the filtering which i'm going to ditch in favour for smoothwall...

[eejit]

You can definitely get a range of unfiltered IP addresses. You need to fill out the "WAN service change request" form and send it off to Synetrix who will make the changes pretty quickly.

[Netware]

now sorted a 2 secord job thanks

[Joanne]

buy a second line and get an isa server and have a nice fast unfiltered internet just for you!!

[projector1]

serves you right! you should not be spending soo much time obtaining valuable infomation and knowledge that helps you carry out your role more effieciently! :oops:

[Grommit]

We are on the LGFL and have access to the filtering system and all you do is add edugeek to the allow list...