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We pay 16k for 100Mb leased line from BT so the pricing for 30Mb seems about right. @themightymrp In terms of Lightspeed or Bloxx. I would go with Lightspeed their inline filter is so easy to use and just works without needing someone to baby sit it all day.

I have had this issue with a Cisco router and a WAN switch, the auto sensing did not work and we had to manually set the duplex on the ports.

The Sonicwall is head and shoulders above the Smoothwall in terms of firewall. The App identification is good and so is the bandwidth management on various subnets / AD user groups etc. The GUI for reporting is much nicer (love the spinning pie chart) you can identify the issues much easier. For a basic firewall the smoothwall does the job for doing simple port forwards but if you really want to get a handle on what traffic is coming in and out of your network then the Sonicwall is the first choice. If you have the money Palo Alto is very nice too.

DNS scavenging should sort out the duplicate records in DNS as RTFM said its to do with the passwords databases

Process monitor and Regmon ?

No sure what you are asking here? If they are on a separate VLANS the location is identified by the IP range of the VLAN, this is created as a Location in smoothwall for example 10.149.10.x to 10.149.10.x. Then setup as a transparent proxy and the method for authentication is a redirect to an SSL login page. No need for proxy settings in the device or messing with WPAD. Is this how you are doing it RTFM?

The Sonicwall SRA4200 is great for SSL VPN and easy to setup, lots of features, will plug in to your AD. Cheap as chips too. If you look for a "old" none branded Dell model you may grab yourself a bargain.

If anyone has any android devices you will need to add the proxy in manually to get things like the play store working even if you are filtering using ident by location in smoothwall.

IRIS is pretty good not cheap probably 10k for 50 users for 3 years. Fairly easy to setup and configure. Like any of these systems you need someone in the school to be pushing the system in terms of teaching / learning and staff development. We found that initially there was some IT involvement in setting the camera up for teachers but they soon got the hang of it. The system works fairly well on wireless N if your wireless backbone is good enough.

From my dealings I would say Ruckus is hard to beat! having used Cisco, Netgear, Meru and Aruba.

Not really answering the question but have a look at WDS(Windows deployment servers) Will save you a shed of time imaging!

This is a bit like the iOs and Android debate I have good and bad experiences with both HP and Dell, My last few server purchase for VM hosts have been HP G7's which have been great.

Netgear XSM and GS ranges will support 10Gb over om1 fibre up to about 270m and i have seen them running above 300m and the price point is not to bad. The down side is they are not HP / Cisco so they can be "well a bit netgear" however they do provide good value for money. Depends on budget, if you have the money go HP if not and you still want 10Gb links the netgears will do it.

wrong thread mutiple tabs are great

Advantages of a good SAN / Dedupe /Snapshot every hour and constant replication across the site. The days of 3 days to do a full back are long gone. I can honestly say Backup Exec/ Veeam / Large NAS and Tape loaders are bloody awful! You can then do Full offsite with something like crash plan if your DR plan asks for it