IrritableTech

Is your CCTV planned to be monitored remotely by a control centre perhaps? If so, it's likely to only be monitored when nobody else is in the building, so I wouldn't worry too much about it's bandwidth. Our 450 machines average around 35-45Mbit/s but we do peak at about 80-90Mbit/s three or four times a day. I can imagine your FTTC connection is enough, but doesn't much wiggle room. If you are looking at using your net connection for telephone calls - I think you'll struggle with quality whilst leaving bandwidth for your machines. VLAN'ing things off is a good idea if you have the equipment, or the budget. However again, the links between our voice switches carrying 65 handsets rarely sees much more than 100-150kbps at any one time. I've seen successful implementations of voip and curriculum traffic on a single flat lan, with no noticeable loss of quality. On the additonal IP's - your CCTV might only need a handful of addresses, and your voip system can probably be in a separate private range that never touches the SWGfL. Say your SWGfL range is 10.1.2.0/22 your phones could be 192.168.0.0/24 as long as they don't require net access? Could depend on how your support is supplied to the system though.

As mentioned, both systems can have real handsets. We've been through this recently. Cloud platforms tend to have a richer feature set but are license based which can be costly year on year. An on site PBX tends to be cheaper both outright and ongoing we found, but won't have quite so many features, and may be harder to upgrade in the future. We've just put in a LG-Ericsson iPECs voip system and ISDN30 - found it to be best on cost and reliability - of cause your mileage may vary.

Thanks David. Arrived this afternoon and it's fitted and running this evening. :-)

After a quick glance, your config looks good. I can't see the fact you haven't a default route would make any difference. If I remember correctly though, when I set up our 5412 I had a similar issue. Although I'd written the config correctly, written it to memory etc. It took a restart of the switch before it was actually routing packets. Shouldn't have done - but it did.

Most of our APs run from HP E2900AL's but some run from our 5412ZL as well. Looks like there have been issues though... thanks @CPLTD

We don't use that exact model (all ours are 7363's) but they were designed to be used over PoE, so I can't imagine a problem. I'd suggest that the vast majority of these are running over PoE and your current setup is in the minority. Just ensure your new switch has enough power for the amount of APs you are connecting - although the ruckus APs are fairly lean on power. Looking at mine now, they pull between 3.9 and 4.5 watts each.

I've been with Vidahost for the last nine months. They've been good for me. They'll sell you a domain and hosting in a package I'm sure. Lots of people on here use CS New Media I think, although I've no experience of them myself.

I've seen schools moving towards this approach - but slightly differently. I think it's probably unreasonable to expect every student to 'bring their own device'. Those who don't have the money for equipment, don't want to bring it to school for one reason or another or don't have the latest device must all be considered. A BYOD scheme also must be device agnostic. This usually means everything must be browser based, rather than app based. Schools need to ensure that cloud storage is support on a range of platforms (windows, iOS, Android, OSX, Chrome, Linux...) Most schools have entered a scheme to finance the purchase of a device which will typically include insurance. Schools who take this approach may also buy additional devices to loan to students. Schools have also probably decided on a single device on which to base their T&L. This is typically referred to as 1:1 schemes (one pupil one device). Once you've made this decision, you can look at removing some of your traditional IT suites. However as stated, you can't remove them all, the current curriculum in my opinion still needs them.

Dirt cheap - I like the sound of this. I'll email you. I was thinking about the draytek 120 and mikrotik combo you know so well, but you've got me thinking now...

Fair enough - I was wondering if it was sky too. Nothing to add I'm afraid around getting login details out of their routers.

Who is your ISP?

You've got a few? I might be interested for my home use if you'd like to PM me a price? Fed up of my stock router, and it's replacement isn't acting quite as I'd like.

I've already reset my password. Did it on April 2nd!

It's time to break out the hammer.

For those using cloudflare and wanting DDNS this is a good option... https://scotthelme.co.uk/replacing-dyndns-cloudflare-ddns/ I'm able to call the PHP file hosted on my web server using my router. The router doesn't like the reply it gets from the page, but it works all the same.

I used two registrars, 123reg and namecheap. I'm moving most things over to the latter due to cost and the fact namecheap offer 2 factor auth. Just found out that namecheap also allow dynamic DNS updating if you use their DNS servers. I generally use cloudflare for my DNS needs though, you can dynamically update DNS records on there too, but their api isn't compatible with my router - it requires a script - might look into this again one day.

Have you checked with your registrar or DNS provider that they don't offer this service. A handful do. Who is your domain registered with?

Oh I see. Ours is provided by TalkTalk, but in reality is a BT line, with BT equipment provided by a BT engineer... I wondered if you'd sold the school clock tower as a mast!

Vodafone - what's going on there?

If you're looking for a small managed system with only a few bells and whistles there are cheaper options (take a look at ubiquiti), but if you've got the money (and are happy to pay maintenance) ruckus is great kit - very easy to set up.

We've reused our fibre, so that tray remains in the rack. Our BT shuk has been stuffed in a box since I removed it when our fibre was disconnected by the LLN in the summer of 2012. It's most likely an old piece of kit that BT aren't going to reclaim to be honest. The LCC have been in touch about reclaiming our half of the BT wireless link we've been using, but no mention of the 2950.

My wife doesn't like my use of 'old fashioned' names for my tech. iPhone - Beril iPad - Gertrude Laptop - Graeme (I think this is still fairly common?) Just picked up a new phone though, so this post and link is well timed...

BYOD includes subjects which already have sections on here. Filtering and firewalling, networking and wireless, VLE's etc. People who can offer advice on the subject generally find the threads through searching and 'latest posts'. [edit] sorry I seem to have been posting at the same time.

A real shame then - really could lose ruckus some custom I fear.

Understood - thanks