5nowman

This is some good advice here. We've had the opposite with some ICT Suppliers for sims support. Even migrating to a different MIS has been a poop show. I won't be naming which MIS but you'd think 4 weeks to reply to a new school during their onboard is bad right? It feels like companies are lazy now and the local tech teams work their back sides off.

Thank you. Appreciate you!

Hey how you doing? We're planning to do a similar thing with 3CX .. how did it work out? 5nowman

Thanks pal!

How bad was this? Gonna have to do this soon! Wonde Inventry! CPOMS WONDE is everything now... gmail sync etc. How bad will it get?

Evening, Hope you are all well. Have any of you had issues with google chrome and gmail specifically opening pdf attachments? Ones that have opened in the past now ask to be downloaded and do not open in preview in chrome. This is on google education workspace and chrome. The error seems to be the machine is offline. you download the pdf and it comes up corrupt. Sounds odd right? Hopefully someone has seen it. The machine does not drop off the internet nor is it online which makes this very odd. Could be chrome, workspace, or even adobe reader! going to be a tricky one by the fact that gmail says it is offline and try opening the pdf with a different applcation. Any ideas? Anyone seen this? Appreciate any info.. Take care. 5nowman

All, Hope you are well and settling back into the new year. Good Luck We use google workspace and all emails for a domain for everyone are going into spam. If I added the domain as trusted on the admin side and a SPAM email was to come from that domain would it be blocked? I hope that makes sense! Kind regards 5nowman

I want to thank everyone for their help. Hope some of you are spending time to enjoy the sun. 5nowman!

Changes made their end on how the website handles multiple http requests/ object and it seems to have worked. Still being tested. No timeouts now. Much much faster. It wasn't DNS lol 😆

This is interesting. Glad you resolved it. One of the things I did to t roubleshoot our issue was put a manual dns resolution on the smooothwall itself like a windows host file. This is bad long term but good for troubleshooting. in my case this didn't make a difference as our issue was something else

dns changed on workstation to bypass forwarding to router. 8.8.8.8 - fail - site slow 8.8.4.4 - fail - site slow 9.9.9.9 - fail - site slow 1.1.1.1 - fail - site slow. refreshed cache after each dns change. incognito window - chrome. closed and opened after changing dns ip. behaviourwatch https://eduspot.co.uk/behaviourwatch/ loads ok.. when you sign it, the page changes to the server https://gb6.behaviourwatch.co.uk/ and it takes FOREVER to load... does time out or sometimes loads slow.

We only have 1 external IP else I Would have tested it incase it was behaviourwatch blocking that ip address. this would have been the perfect test. I might even find out how much it costs to get an extra external ip address.

I cannot connect directly bypassing the smoothwall as this will kick everyone off and we are going to have to schedule it for half term c oming up.

Hi.. going to try some of those dns a a physical entry on a workstation... this should in theory bypass the dns on smoothwall.

Just want to say thank you too for testing it. everything is still slow for that site. company has washed their hands of it and said it is not a fault on their end.

Hi. What size chromebooks are you looking at? Can range from chromebooks to chromebooks plus which can be 16inch with full keyboards. 5nowman

Firewall on AV on. Will rebuild after anyway. Never taking a risk.

Thank you. That is a good site! Everything keeps pointing to timeouts to .js and then subsequant other pages thereafter. Bringing down the internet at this time to test dns bypassing smoothwall fully etc is not an option I will be cloning the smoothwall external ip etc to a laptop and physically unplug the smoothwall to test out speeds with no man in the middle at all. Any views on this? The laptop will get attacked I know but this has to be done.

Have had such a horrible time with this all week with behavourwatch smoothwall etc. Support has been decent from the ISP and behaviourwatch however neither could find the fault. Escalted to smoothwall direct today. I checked on our smoothwall our smoothwall is set to: 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9 which seems ok right....

thank you . will DM you the ticket number. Are we saying different ISPS are having different delay times?

5 seconds?!? That is long! The page has loads of objects and if there js a 5 second delay that could be it! What isp are you testing it from?

Thank you for your reply. 8.8.8.8 tested already. Is 8.8.4.4 another google DNS? Infact smoothwall redirects to that.

@tom_newton If you can disclose... are there issues with smoothwall and JS at the moment? This should help alot if you can confirm that is something you are currently looking into. My ISP has logged a ticket for my school.

BT Fibre.

ok forget this.. here are the errors I get... you can see the name of the site and what we are accessing. It looks very similar except it does not link to raven....