jamescole1978

I've had some dealings with Fluid Data who don't shout about schools Broadband but do cover a number of schools. Contract terms are incredibly flexible (down to 3 months) and they do a whole range of different solutions. Max Stoner was the account manager there. All seemed very efficient and well priced. for what it is worth.

I wonder has anyone tried a WISP (Wireless ISP) connnection instead? I understand that most of them are fairly regional and need line of sight but I've just connected up with one and it was ludicrously cheap for the connectivity and the contention is incredibly low. I just wanted to understand if this is a viable option for schools? I hae dealings with some governors in schools that are very rural and with the CC dropping the schools network next April there is a lot of head scratching going on currently. Pro's and cons comparred to what seems like very expensive options (£19K 30Mb being the extreme)?

Fluid data have just started to offer a Netsweeper filtered Internet service. capita offer openhive ISP which has a range of optional extras including filtering. Also if you would like to organise your own line and filtering off site there is a Edu focused netsweeper portal / proxy that is now in service. I believe all of these options can offer filtering at a user level and reporting etc. PM me for relevant contact details if it is something that you wish to look into. However the essential services you need to retain from BGFL is something that I believe you need to be very careful about, I've seen a number of complaints about being locked out from them very quickly after you don't sign up to the contract for the coming year. this is not necessarily in BGFL however it concerns me that this can happen quickly. therefore being up on what you need from them and what you need as the basics of compliance and security is important but also understanding the resources you COULD end up without and tracking down viable alternatives I think is essential. Here is the kick in the behind for you, don't expect to save money year 1. Howver can you increase connectivity and get a better SLA for the same cost? More than likely. Cost savings seem to be year 2 and 3 onwards depending on penalties for leaving if there are any? I have seen recently a £2K penalty which was written into the contract years ago in very obvious and large print indeed...... Actually it was microscopic but there none the less. My 10 pence worth.

Hi, Netsweeper does not have a separate module or 'add on' for anti-malware capabilities, but provides these capabilities as a standard part of our web filtering. As part of our categorisations, we include the categories of "Adware", "Phishing" and "Viruses", and these categories are dynamically updated by the browsing patterns of the entire Netwsweeper user base (of more than 100 million). The Netsweeper AI engines evaluate the content of requested URIs by applying behavioural, reputation and signature-based analysis. In practical terms, this means that (assuming the appropriate categories are defined as 'blocked'), Netsweeper will block URIs that are identified as containing malware or other web threats.

Hi Gareth, can you PM me your details and we will get this resolved? We've been running NTLM and Kerberos authentication in other regions. No doubt we'll have to go back to the LA with it however that's no big issue wf we know what the challenge is. James

Hi with regards the EMBC Netsweeper setup I was able to block iGoogle by adding the following entries to my global deny list: I cannot post links yet so @m leaving a deliberate gap in the following links. h ttp://*.google. com/ig h ttp://*.google. co.uk/ig