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i thought this might be slightly related:- i managed to get an IT teacher to pose with me infront of there new projecter for a photo, but it just wouldn't save. :D:D

okay so the boss dumped the website this week, and is asking me if we HAVE to pay a host for a domain or can we just grab one ourselves?, make one out of thin air. i have no knoledge on building websites, im a cable guy i need a guru! help!

send an email to [email protected] just asking about wireless and the firm will send you everything relevant just communications only sell one wireless system because we know that this is the gear that works

sitting in the garden once watching some fireworks from the pub, one landed right on my nieghbours head while he was holding is 6 year old daughter, very bloody >< but u never think to yourself "where will that firework land"

did you hear the one at the start of the year though laserblazer, dad walking down the stairs carrying a television with his daughter infront of him... he tripped on the power cable, squish >< imagine living with that =(

Hello Edugeek, Robert hutton, im the partner of a networking and cabling company called Just Communications, our company is based in kent, and our IT guru told us about this lovely place of knoledge... so here i am, full of questions, and hopefully some answers! nice to meet you all who wants some cat5e ;D

ahhh, now the expert on the phone mentioned connect before login, but he said that was found on the server, are you talking about a setting on the individual laptops or the server, its a windows03 RM server, running cc3 as i corrected myself earlier NOT cc4

being a cable installer this made me smile, school children seem to have a need to rip labels off the front of network sockets if there within range of there little hands, if the cable is there, and is plugged into the switch - but there are no lights that would tell me there is nothing plugged in at the other end, or the cable has been broken. test it with a simple set of cable testers, if you get all your lights then the socket works, if you dont get all your lights, unscrew the faceplate in the classroom and look to see if it looks like it has been pulled away from the cable, if so you will need to re-terminate the cable with a cat5e punch down tool (you can buy these from maplins) q[^.^]p good luck

yes i agree, im currently adding an encription to the TEST essid i created, ive used a simple WPA-personal encryption (following advice from a 3rd party)

i have created a new ESSID to use as a test with no encryption and the laptops and i have tested 8 laptops which have all happily connected, they all have internet access and can see the shared network drives, my colleague has tried to use fixed ip addresses and has had no success.

just a quick note ive just been told that the school is running CC3!! i don't know what difference this makes to the wireless side of things =o

the wireless network is broadcasting one ESSID on channel 1 at 802.11g, the technology used by belden switches was "cloned" from a company called Extricom, they call it a "blanket coverage" because the basics of there wireless systems are tottaly different to how standard wireless APs work, for your own interest if you have 2 minute watch this video and it will show u how there system works [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qw7FuAOo_g]YouTube - Extricom WLAN In Action[/ame]

thank you for your quick reply, but i think i should explain the hardware a little more the Belden wireless switch is essentially the only smart piece of technology, its a 24-port switch that works as the access point, it then has multiple aerials wired to it using Cat5e which run off to different areas of the school using PoE so far i have updated the wireless card drivers on the laptops, which has improved the latops slightly, however its very..... luck based on wether the laptops will connect, the wireless is encrypted with a WEP128 i think (i have no knoledge on encryptions this was setup by the school)

Hello edugeek, my names rob im a network engineer in need of advice from a higher power! i'm currently in a primary school in kent that is running a CC4 network, the school has a 24-port belden wireless switch with 12 aerials, its a very nice bit of kit... however they are also trying to run 150 laptops on an 802.11G network, the laptops will not pickup an ip address from the DHCP when they are switched on (1 in 10 will, sometimes) yes before i switch them on i have checked the wireless cards are on and that im within close proximity to a wireless aerial. i feel that the problem could be with the schools dhcp but my knoledge ends there, i only have enough brain power to configure the wireless switch and expect it to work, can anyone suggest a solution as to why the laptops are not picking up an ip address and a connection, ps. hardwired i can log in as any user and manual connect to the wireless. any information or guesswork will be greatly appreciated